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Most people still believe that Simpson, the black football legend, killed his white ex-wife and her friend, polls show. But for many African-Americans, his likely guilt remains overwhelmed by a potent mix: the racism of

the lead detective and the history of black mistreatment by the justice system.

For these people, Simpson’s acquittal is a powerful rebuke to what they see as America’s racial crimes. Others simply see

a murderer who played the race card to get away with it. Across the board, emotions remain vivid. “We were consumed with it,” recalls Carlos Carter, who at the time was one of the few black people working in the trust department of a Pittsburgh bank. “It represented something bigger than the case, the battle between good and evil, the battle between the white man and the black man. It was at that level.”

It was at a different level for Shannon Spicker, a white woman working her way through college in Ohio at the time. “Most of us didn’t understand why it was racially charged,” she says. “We didn’t understand how people could defend him ... We knew he was guilty, but they defended him because he was black. It was weird.”

On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found knifed to death outside her Los Angeles condo. Suspicion quick-ly focused on Simpson, who had beaten Nicole in the past and had no alibi. Several factors heightened and complicated the drama:

Simpson had a mixed-race marriage in a nation that had historically punished black men who dared to explore interracial sex. He was the target of a Los Angeles Police Department that had a reputation for racism and corruption.

But Simpson also was a wealthy Hollywood actor and ad pitchman with little connec-tion to the black community, a

man who divorced his black wife for a young blonde and traveled in Los Angeles’ most privileged white circles. His money and fame placed him far from the poor, black men lan-guishing in the criminal justice system. “O.J. was in a weird place,” says Ronnie Duncan, a black man who was then working as a TV sportscaster. “He lived a lavish life in L.A., sunny skies, beautiful women, everyone takes you out to lunch. But one thing we recognize, you can deny it all you want, but I can be driving right now and —” Duncan makes the sound of a police siren.

Simpson was charged with double mur-

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CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode Island — Actor Alec Baldwin has received the key to Rhode Island’s smallest city for his donations to help reopen the financially struggling city’s library.

Baldwin donated $10,000 to the Adams Memorial Library in Central Falls in 2011 after he read a New York Times story about how it was forced to close because of financial problems. He gave another $5,000 in 2012. The 1-square-mile (2.6-square-kilometer) city emerged from bankruptcy that year.

Baldwin’s visit Saturday was his

first to the library.Library director Joel Pettit says

Baldwin accepted the key from the mayor on the library steps. He was headlining a fundraiser Saturday night in nearby Providence for the library. Pettit said Baldwin is a great guy, and he’s hopeful the event will bring atten-tion to the importance of libraries.

FILE - This April 10, 2014 file photo shows actor Alec Baldwin

at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Fes-tival’s Opening Night Gala in Los

Angeles.

Alec Baldwin accepts key to US city for donation

Photo by Annie I. Bang /Invision/AP, File

Simpson case at 20: Views in black and whiteAssociated Press Writer

The O.J. Simpson murder trial exposed many painful truths. None hit harder than the idea that white and black people often look at the same facts and see different realities. Today, 20 years after the case divided the United States, few opinions have changed. Despite two decades of increasing racial acceptance, highlighted by the election of the country’s first black president, the saga still reflects deep-rooted obstacles to a truly united America.

AP Photo/Keith Srakocic

In this June 2, 2014, photo, Shannon Spicker sits on her porch beside her daughter Maryana, 2, in Coraopolis, Pa., and talks about the feelings she had at the time of the O.J. Simpson arrest, trial and decision 20 years ago. Spicker said, “Most of us didn’t understand why it was racially charged.”

“If the investors take control over the buffer zones, land con-version will certainly happen. Once the land is occupied, they will utilize it as they like. I am pessimistic the investors will be concerned with the function of buffer zone,” said an academician, I Putu Sarjana.

On that account, Sarjana hoped the officials in the county / munici-pality throughout Bali should have commitment to maintain the area

as a source of Balinese life because water resources, agriculture, planta-tions, etc., were predominantly de-rived from the region. If there was a change in the ecosystem due to investors, then Bali would increas-ingly depend on commodities from outside. Meanwhile, people in the region would become modern farm-ers that liked hanging out in coffee shops or cafés until the money of their land sale ran out.

“Do not let any officials even

become the land broker. If that happens, the intention of investors will be fulfilled. This is what I fear,” he said.

In addition, local governments should involve local customary vil-lage in order they could keep and preserve the buffer zone. Besides, the government should provide training and debriefing for pekaseh or subak chief so they knew about wetland, dry land and the phenom-enon at issue. In addition, it was also intended in order they would not duped by investors.

“In relation to the preservation, the role of universities in charge of the matter should be given space to communicate with the public so that it results in maximum training effort,” he affirmed.

If the region had been owned by investors, it would be developed in appropriate with the design planed by investors. On that account, Sarjana hoped the government to seriously address such conditions so that investors would not change the zonation in accordance with their intention. “Ecosystem of the region will obviously change and investors are not thinking about it. They have the authority to have the land. Once again I’d like to re-affirm, the county/municipal government must still recommend the green open space and the agri-culture cannot be used outside its function. The government must take firm action if there is a viola-tion,” said Sarjana.

An environmentalist, Ketut

Adnyana, revealed that investors actually very much supported the sustainable development in Bali. However, the investors should be able to respect and carry out the cultural values upheld by Balinese people, including upholding the values of Balinese culture as well as the matter of house or hotel development.

He hoped that local government should oversee all the projects in the region. If the projects were not equipped with permit, local authori-ties should move quickly and stop the projects. “If they are stubborn, please take action and report them to police. The environmental impact must be taken into account and it is the role of regional government to oversee,” said Adnyana. (kmb36)

Buffer zone should maintain seriouslyBali Post

DENPASAR - To preserve the buffer zone of Bali, such as Petang, Bedugul, Batukaru and Kintamani, local governments are expected to seriously guard and synergize with local people. If this is not undertaken, the investors are feared to make efforts to dominate the region.

IBP/File Photo

The photo showed a view of Panelokan, Kintamani that located at Bangli Regency. To preserve the buffer zone of Bali, such as Petang, Bedugul, Batukaru and Kintamani, local governments are expected to seriously guard and synergize with local people.

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014

1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida

8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan

10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud

11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar

12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi

5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan KlungkungPura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Penebel TabananPura Benua Tarukan Besakih

9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Kalah BatubulanPura Desa Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kuta BadungPura Dalem Pulasari GianyarPura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar SelatanPura Paibon Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak SiringPura Pasar Agung Kediri TabananPura Puaya Batuan Sukawati

11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

19 Deluxe Pool Villas (265m) exude an idyl-lic appeal in the tranquil surroundings. Soft fur-nishings in a simple yet tasteful style create an atmosphere of warmth and cosines. The private plunge pool and gazebo for in-villa massage treatments are added luxuries for guests’ daily indulgence.

The 5 Royal Pool Villa are fashioned like the Deluxe Pool Villas and the 480m compound houses two villas instead of one. A common patio area encourages relaxing evening chats and in-villa dining.

All villas are well equipped with modern conveniences, ideal for discerning executive types and vacationing couples to lounge around and unwind in maximum comfort, inviting you into a memorable holiday experience. IBP/File Photo

Furama Vilas & SpaIBP

BADUNG - The Furama vilas & Spa, Bali is nestled amidst padi fields in the Banjar Bindu district in mountainous Ubud, cover-ing over 2000m2 verdant lands. Accessible to the popular Ubud market via the resort’s free shuttle service, the Concierge can also arrange for transportation to other tourist attractions based on guest’s needs.

According to Prof. Dr. Ketut Suastika, cigarette had the same nature as drugs. Our brain had a receptor for nicotine, a sub-stance contained in cigarette, where the receptor would be stimulated when nicotine en-tered the body. Thus, it made the body addictive. It would be very difficult to quit smoking because the brain as the control center of

the body was in need of nicotine as the contagious nature of the previously stimulated recep-tor. “If there is no very strong intention, people who smoke cannot escape the habit,” said Suastika.

In addition to nicotine, the contents of cigarette smoke were the same as pollutant smoke where one of them was

carbon monoxide gas. Indeed, in the first few years, smokers would not have health problems, other than having congenital diseases such as asthma. “When continuing to smoke, the con-genital asthma usually reacts immediately. But basically the disease emerges due to cigarette is chronic,” said Suastika.

The first organ exposed

Bali PostSINGARAJA - Bengkala village, Kubu-

tambahan subdistrict, known to have dis-abled residents begins to get the attention from foreign community. As evidence, a total of 12 people with similar disability from Canada made a special visit to Bengkala village. The foreigners with disability will stay at the village.

Other than becoming a pride of Buleleng, the visit also poses an exchange activity for teenagers with special needs first held in Indonesia and Northern Bali is appointed to host the activity.

The Division Head of National Potential Development, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Rosita, said on Saturday (Jun 7) that Indo-nesian government through the Minister of Youth and Sports had made cooperation with foreign parties through student exchange since 1974. The exchange of youth with special needs had never been done, and this year was the first time by targeting Buleleng. A total of 12 Canadian citizens would live together in a house of disable Bengkala villagers. “We designed a disabled family of Bengkala will get two foster children of Canadian citizens,” she said.

According to Rosita, during the visit at Bengkala all the participants would conduct social activities, either in the field of health, environment of education. Disable children

and families at Bengkala village would also be taught by the children from Canada about how to use sign language for them in accor-dance with international standards.

Chief of Project Officer of the Indonesia-Canada Relations, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Andi, said the selection of location at Bengkala village for the disability youth exchange was considering the Bengkala village was one of the areas having disable people in large number.

In addition, the existence of people with special needs at Bengkala village, after compared to the other regions in Indonesia, was the most famous. “The exchange of the youth with special needs refers to the capac-ity building for the youth with special needs in order to be able to grow better,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Buleleng Social Services, Gede Komang, very much ap-preciated the exchange program of youth with special needs. According to him, the program was a government effort to give the same opportunity to develop normal residents and those with special needs. Until this year, the residents with special needs in Buleleng reached 5,046 people. A total of 43 people were residents of Bengkala village. “Hopefully, this program can be sustained so as to bring in positive impact on mute residents existing in our area,” he said. (kmb38)

Passive and active smokers equally dangerousBali Post

DENPASAr - Smokers must be very familiar with the warning contained on cigarette case. All types of cigarettes include the same warning that smoking can cause cancer, impotence, heart attack, pregnancy and fetal disorders. The warnings are not a mere figment because both active and passive smokers have large potential to be exposed to disease threats as mentioned in the warning.

was surely the lungs ranging from asthma, bronchitis to lung cancer. Smoking could also trigger coro-nary heart disease, stroke and blood vessels. In addition, it could cause miscarriages and birth defects. Fur-ther, Suastika said the more young people smoked the threat of disease he mentioned was also getting big-ger. Likewise, the morbidity rate would also turn higher. “The disease caused by smoking is chronic. So, the younger one smokes, the poten-tial to be exposed to disease is also getting higher,” he said.

More hazardously, that negative im-pact would not only be exposed to ac-tive smokers. Non-smokers could also be affected if they were continuously

exposed to cigarette smokes or the so-called passive smokers. So, active smokers did not only harm themselves but also damaged the environment and people at the surroundings.

Nevertheless, the smoking caution chiefly for minors, according to Suas-tika, seemed still weak in Indonesia. The government seemed loose in the enforcement of penalties for smokers, though many smoke-free areas had been determined. It remained to exist where many students and minor were smoking. He hoped the government to tighten penalties for smokers who smoked in public places and tighten the rules on the age allowed to buy cigarettes, so teenagers were not easy to get access to buy cigarettes. (san)

Bengkala village to host exchange of the youth with special needs

IBP/File

The Bengkala Village is visited by people from Canada

3Monday, June 9, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLifestyle Monday, June 9, 2014

The Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Director General of Public Informa-tion and Diplomacy Esti Andayani said as the host of the forum, Indone-sia had the privilege of inviting state leaders to attend the event.

“President Yudhoyono sent invi-tations to eleven state leaders, who he considered represent each region on diversity issues,” Esti noted.

The eleven state leaders who were invited include Spain, Turkey, Brazil, Qatar, Austria, Myanmar, China, India, Timor Leste, Papua

AntaraDENPASAR - A number of Balinese academicians have declared

their support for presidential candidate Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and his running mate Jusuf Kalla (JK), a spokesman said.

“Academicians representing all universities in Bali gathered here on Saturday evening to declare their support for Jokowi-JK,” Dr Made Bakta, coordinator of the Balinese Academician Exponents, said on Sunday.

The declaration was aimed at promoting the vision and missions of Jokowi-JK among the public, and university students in particular, he said.

“A coordinating secretariat will be set up in every university to introduce the vision and missions, according to him.

“Jokowi-JK has a vision and missions to bring a change in Indone-sia in the future. Because this nation needs a basic change, including a change in the public’s mentality,” he added.

He said the Balinese academicians were committed to supporting the Jokowi-JK pair.

Jokowi had good track record when he was the mayor of Solo and the governor of Jakarta as he was successful and making significant change, he stated.

Jusuf Kalla, when he was the country’s vice president, managed to end armed conflicts and bring peace to Aceh and Maluku provices, he added.

Wayan Sudirta, coordinator of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Coalition for Jokowi-JK in Bali, said many public elements supported Jokowi-JK.

“We are optimistic that the Jokowi-JK pair will win in the up-coming presidential election. In Bali, almost every public element supports the modest, honest and down-to-earth presidential and vice presidential candidates,” he said.

Indonesia is going to hold a free and democratic presidential elec-tion on July 9, 2014, which will be participated in only two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates: Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Jusuf Kalla.

Prabowo Subianto is a retired military general and the chairman of Gerindra (Great Indonesia Movement) Party, while his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, is a former coordinating minister for economic affairs and the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN).

Jokowi is Jakarta’s Governor and a cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), and his running mate, Jusuf Kalla (JK), is a former vice president and a senior politician of the Golkar Party.

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

A Balinese elderly dancer performs during art and cultural performance event in Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, June 8, 2014. Dozens of elderly people took part in the event.

President to open UNAOC Global Forum in Bali

IBP

DENPASAR - Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will officially open the Sixth United Nations Alliances of Civilizations (UNAOC) in Bali on August 29, addressing the theme of “unity in diversity: celebrating diversity for common and shared value.”

New Guinea and South Africa.“Myanmar is invited in its capac-

ity as the chairman of ASEAN, even though it is not as yet a member of UNAOC’s Group of Friends (GoF),” Esti said.

In addition to the eleven state leaders, the Sixth UNAOC’s Global Forum will also be attended by 114 members of UNAOC’s Group of Friends (GoF), 25 international or-ganizations and 100 of UNAOC’s youth delegations.

“It is an honor for Indonesia to

host such an important conference for the civilizations, whereby the world also recognizes our efforts to promote harmony in our society through inter-religion and inter-media discussions,” she said.

As the host of the Sixth UNAOC’s Global Forum, Esti added that Indo-nesia is also keen to strengthen the understanding of pluralism, as the country has owned the concept of “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” or “unity in diversity” for a long time and then used it as the national motto.

“We aim to promote and forge a plan of action on how to accept and respect diversity as a blessing, instead of as a source of disunity,” she said.

Indonesia was expecting a plan of action for promoting harmony in civilizations as the outcome of the event.

“Looking back at the previous events in Vienna, Austria, in 2012, Europe has pledged a plan of action to bridge the gap among various religions, cultures and other civiliza-tions in order to promote harmony, and so we hope that Asia too will have the same,” Esti stated.

Moreover, Esti noted that the Sixth Global Forum of UNAOC in Bali will be the first time that the conference will be held in the Asian region.

“It is an honor for Indonesia to host such an important confer-ence for the civilizations where the world also recognizes our efforts to promote harmonization among our society through inter-religion and inter-media dialogues,” she emphasized.

The UNAOC was initiated by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on July 14, 2005, and co-sponsored by former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zap-atero and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The first UNAOC’s Global Fo-rum in Madrid, Spain, in 2008, was held for a common consideration in condemning extremist actions, such as bomb attacks in Bali, Madrid, Egypt, Istanbul and London.

Balinese academicians support Jokowi-JK


LONDON — There’s a dead rat at the heart of a new exhibition mounted by august auction house Sotheby’s. Stuffed and sporting a backpack and a spray can, the rodent is the creation-cum-alter ego of Banksy, the anonymous street artist turned art-world superstar.

It’s a sign of his status that Sotheby’s is behind one of the largest-ever Banksy exhibitions, a display of kissing police-men, placard-wearing chimpanzees and smiley-faced riot police spanning much of the artist’s career. Some of the works originally sold for as little as 50 pounds ($84). Now, prices range from 4,000 pounds ($6,700) to more than 500,000 pounds ($840,000).

Banksy is not involved in the show, which is being billed as an “unauthorized retrospective.” It has been assembled by his former agent Steve Lazarides, who first met Banksy in the 1990s in their home town of Bristol in southwest

England.Lazarides took a paint-filled fire ex-

tinguisher to the gallery’s white walls to make it look less like an alien environment for graffiti art. But, he conceded Friday, “it’s completely paradoxical for me to be here, for the work to be here.” “It’s in a space it almost shouldn’t be and viewed in a way it was never intended,” he said. “But I think that’s part of the fun.”

The 70 paintings, prints and sculptures, owned by Lazarides and other collectors, display Banksy’s subversive — if not al-ways subtle — humor. Winston Churchill sports a Mohawk haircut; genteel pension-ers play lawn bowls with fizzing bombs; a ballerina breathes through a gas mask; a hungry child with an empty bowl wears a Burger King hat.

Several early works feature police of-ficers — bane of Banksy’s existence as a young street artist. For others, he’s altered existing paintings: Van Gogh’s sunflowers have withered and died; flying saucers disrupt a maritime scene.

AP Photo/Todd Vansickle, FileFILE - In this May 17, 2013 file photo, a flamingo walks along the beach on Necker Island in the British Virgin Is-lands.

This week, a group of local communal landholders blockaded the Holbox town hall to protest the development plans. Three hotels and an estimated 872 residential units would be built on a spit of land now populated only by mangrove trees and flamingos, which wade ankle-deep in gulf waters as calm as glass. The waters aren’t deep enough for the construction barges to build the project, nor the passenger boats the resort would need.

“The fact that the lagoon is so shallow is precisely why the birds come,” said Alejandra Ser-rano, of the Mexican Center for Environmental Law. “They need an area where they can stand up and feed.”

The developers, a group of Mexi-can investors called Peninsula Maya Developments, say they want to keep their impact minimal, build-ing their project on just under 10 hectares (24 acres) of undeveloped

Resort plans draw fire in Mexico flamingo reserveAssociated Press Writer

MEXICO CITY — Flamingos gather by the thousands each year in the pristine, shallow waters of Mexico’s Holbox Island, a sliver of nearly empty beachfront and lush landscape where eco-tourists also go to watch manatees and whale sharks in a locale unlike the nearby hotspot of Cancun. But local residents are disturbed by a development plan to dredge their shallow lagoon for a boat channel that would support a new resort on Isla Holbox (HOL’-bosh). Environmentalists say the deeper canal would threaten the flamingos and other wildlife that are a draw for nature-seekers.

land. The resort, tentatively called “La Ensenada,” would promote “preservation through sustainable tourism based on nature.” The de-velopment group, whose website says its members are citizens of the Yucatan and Mexico City, did not respond to requests for comment.

Project opponents say the area already is preserved and that the small-scale tourism economy built by locals hits the right balance between industry and nature. Resi-dents of Holbox, the village on the western edge of the island, prohibit most motorized vehicles and leave much of the surrounding land un-touched. Tour operators at the small hotels use golf carts and boats to carry around visitors wishing to see the flamingos, swim in cenotes or dive with whale sharks. Fishermen catch enough seafood to supply the island’s small hotels and tourist kitchens without overfishing.

Daniel Trigo, the 32-year-old

owner of the Casa Blat-Ha bed and breakfast, said the planned resort “would have negative impacts on the island’s ecosystem and its society.”

As it is, only a few shallow-draft tour boats ply the lagoon between the island and the mainland each day. Some worry that more boat traffic with larger vessels could hurt the

slow-moving manatees. Developers maintain there are no manatees in the area, but activists say they frequently are seen there. Environmentalists also say Mexican law protects man-grove trees that would need to be cut down for the project.

Holbox Island was declared a nature reserve 20 years ago. But for reasons that are unclear, authorities

have yet to create an official manage-ment plan to control activities in the area. Officials of the Environment Department could not explain why the management plan is unfinished. “That’s why they (developers) feel they can come to Holbox and do anything they want, because they don’t feel they’re in a reserve,” said Serrano.

Sotheby’s goes street with Banksy exhibition

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Sotheby’s employees organise the positioning of art work by British artist Banksy during a press preview of an unauthorized retrospective exhibition showing some 70 works of art in London, Friday, June, 6, 2014.

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Lt. Fazel Rahman, the police chief in the Guzirga i-Nur district of Baghlan province, said the death toll from Friday’s flash flooding had climbed to 81 from 54. Some 850 houses across several villages were completely destroyed and more than 1,000 were damaged by the heavy rain and flooding, leaving thousands of people in need of shelter, food, water and medicine, Rahman said.

Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said Army helicopters were assisting in relief efforts in the remote district, which is just 140 kilometers (85 miles) north of the provincial capital Puli Khumri, but is an eight to nine hour journey by land because of the rugged terrain. Rahman said local authorities had received around 100 tents, several hundred blankets and some food, but that more supplies were needed.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a high-ranking gov-ernment commission to acceler-

ate emergency aid to the affected villages and expressed his “deep condolences” to those who lost loved ones, the palace said in a statement Sunday. Afghans living in the northern mountains have largely been spared from the country’s de-cades of war, but are no strangers to natural disasters.

Last month, a landslide triggered by heavy rain buried large sections of a remote village in the northeast-ern Badakhshan province bordering China, displacing some 700 fami-lies. Authorities have yet to provide an exact figure on the number of dead from the May 2 landslide, and estimates have ranged from 250 to 2,700. Officials said it was impos-sible to dig up all the bodies.

A landslide in Baghlan province in 2012 killed 71 people. After days of digging unearthed only five bodies, authorities gave up on the recovery effort and turned the area into a memorial.


SEATTLE — Thousands of dollars are being donated to honor the student credited with thwarting a gunman from shooting more people at a small Seattle university. Jon Meis and other students stopped the gunman Thursday at Seattle Pacific University. Meis has been credited with pepper-spraying and pinning the gunman while he was reloading his shotgun in the lobby of the building where the shooting happened.

Soon after Meis was identified, praise began to pour out on social media sites. Someone found Meis’ wedding registry, and people quickly bought out nearly all the gifts on the wish list. That’s when ESPN sports radio producer Jessamyn McIntyre got the idea to begin a GoFundMe site for Meis and his fiancé’s honeymoon and future. The site quickly went viral.

According to the page’s statistics, over $26,000 from more than 830 donations has been raised as of Saturday afternoon — tallies that are expected to increase. McIntyre said she hasn’t had direct contact with the Meis family, who have asked for privacy. But she has left them her contact information. She also contacted university officials. She will leave the fundrais-ing page up for a week, unless the family asks her to take it down.

On the donations page, people continue praising Meis. One person posted, “Only one word needed: Inspiring,” to go with a $20 donation. A 26-year-old suspect was charged after the shooting that left a 19-year-old man dead and two other young people wounded. The quick action by Meis likely saved lives, police said.

Another solemn fundraiser has also been launched to cover the funeral costs of Paul Lee, the 19-year-old student from Portland, Oregon, killed in the shooting.

Seattle Pacific University alumnus Michael Hasegawa-Yun started the page on GiveForward.com and quickly surpassed the original $5,000 goal. The site had raised more than $6,000 by Saturday afternoon. He says he’ll expand the fundraising to also financially help the student who remains in the hospital.

Death toll from Afghan flood climbs to 81Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan — More than 80 bodies have been found two days after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan’s mountainous and remote north, a provincial official said Sunday, as police and villagers scoured the rugged terrain for missing people and Army helicopters flew in supplies to thousands left homeless.

Afghan police and villagers carry bodies of people after flooding in the northeastern Baghlan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 7, 2014. Flooding in a remote part of northern Af-ghanistan has claimed more than 50 lives and forced thousands to flee their homes, a provincial official said Saturday.AP Photo/Javid Basharat

Donations pour in for Seattle campus-shooting hero

AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua TrujilloJon Meis is taken from the scene by medics after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, June 5, 2014 in Seattle.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Although the Denpasar Police Criminal Investi-gation Unit could arrest the gang of motorcycle theft, it remains unable cover up the rampant motorcycle theft in the other eight counties. From January to March 2014, a total of 94 cases were reported, where 20 cases of them could have been resolved.

Pursuant to the data on crimes of Bali Police, until March 2014 the motorcycle theft case was rife in each county police, where the most rampant was in the jurisdiction of Denpasar Police (53 cases) and 10 cases of them had been resolved. The second place was occupied by the jurisdiction of Badung Police with 14 cases and one of them could be resolved. Meanwhile, Buleleng Police was in the third place with 11 reported cases and three cases could be resolved.

Meanwhile, the motorcycle theft action reported in the jurisdiction of Tabanan Police came to 6 cases and one case could be resolved, Gianyar Police (6 cases) and three cases could be resolved, Klungkung Police (2 case) and one case could be resolved. Ultimately, no motor-cycle theft case was reported in the jurisdiction of Karangasem Police and Bangli Police.

Keep in mind, the motorcycle theft action in the jurisdiction of Bali Police showed a significant improvement in 2012 and 2013. In 2012, a total of 350 cases occurred, where 92 cases could be resolved. In 2013, the case increased signifi-cantly by 55 percent from 2012, to 541 cases, but only 121 cases could be resolved. Total case happened during 2012 and 2013 amounted to 891 cases, where 213 cases could be resolved.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, when asked for his confirmation on the rampant mo-torcycle theft said that police had tried to optimally minimize it. In addition, police had also conducted special operation to suppress the oc-currence of motorcycle theft action. “Police have taken firm action to the perpetrators of theft,” he said while advising people to further increase their awareness and every time parking motorcycle should not be careless. He also encouraged people to use double lock. (kmb35)

Chief of Prison Security Guard, Wayan Agus Miarda, said the arrest began when both perpetrators wished to commend food to one of the inmates, precisely on Saturday afternoon around 4:55 p.m. “Juwarso commends food before the end of visiting time,” he said.

However, when the officers checked it, on the upper part of the large red plastic bag contained fresh vegetables, tomatoes and car-rots. However, when searched further, at the bottom was found a thick bundle tightened with brown tape. “Having been checked, the officer found dried marijuana and a bottle of liquor,” he said while adding if the officers see-ing the marijuana in the packing immediately arrested Juwarso.

When interrogated, said Agus Miarda, Juwar-

so admitted if it was the packing commended by his friend named Besit, equally from Jember, East Java. He initially admitted not to know if the packing delivered to prison contained dried marijuana. However, he also admitted that for sending marijuana to prison, Juwarso gave him money worth IDR 350,000 and IDR 150,000 to buy vegetables. Based on confession of Ju-warso, Besit was from Jember, East Java, and an ex-convict at Kerobokan Prison. “According to Juwarso, his friend Besit commended the goods for an inmate in the prison. Besit said it was only sugar,” he added.

After receiving a report, personnel of the Badung Police Drug Unit immediately came to Kerobokan Prison. Unexpectedly, police checking the mobile phone owned by Juwarso

found a short text message containing the sen-tence “The marijuana amounts to 3 kg, right?” The message strongly proved if the perpetrator intentionally smuggled 3 kg of marijuana into Kerobokan Prison. Furthermore, both perpetra-tors were brought to Badung Police Headquar-ters to undergo further examination.

Meanwhile, Chief of Kerobokan Prison, Farid Junaedi, appreciated his staff that re-mained vigilant against drug smuggling. In addition, he hoped the drug trafficking in the prison could be eliminated. “I very much ap-preciate my officers who remain vigilant to check every incoming goods. Furthermore, I instruct the officers to be more alert, so the drug trafficking inside can totally be elimi-nated,” he said.

When asked about the purpose of the mari-juana consignment weighing 3 kg, the 1993 alumnus of the Academy of Correctional Sci-ences said that his party would coordinate with the Badung Police Drug Unit to investigate the case, “We’ll also investigate the inmate ordering the marijuana together with police,” he said. (kmb35)

Motorcycle theft case rampant, residents urged to be vigilant

3 kg of marijuana fails to be smuggled into Kerobokan Prison

IBP/FileKerobokan Prison

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DENPASAR - High demand for drugs in the Kerobokan Prison of Class II A is proved by the smuggling about to be conducted by two men from East Java named Ahmad Im-ron Rosidi, 34, and Juwarso, 26, Saturday (Jun 7). Unmitigatedly, the dried marijuana weighing 3 kg was about to be smuggled into the prison, where the perpetrators are now secured in the Badung Police Headquarters.

Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China’s trade surplus surged in May, official data showed Sunday, as export growth accelerated sharply while imports showed a surprise fall.

Exports increased 7 percent to $195.47 bil-lion year-on-year, the General Administration of Customs announced, while imports de-clined 1.6 percent to $159.55 billion, resulting in a surplus of $35.92 billion -- a 74.9 percent jump from the same month last year.

The result, China’s third straight monthly surplus, surpassed the median forecast of a surplus of $23.4 billion in a survey of 15 economists by Dow Jones.

Exports, which sharply outpaced April’s 0.9 percent gain, were in line with the me-dian prediction of a 7.2 percent rise, while imports missed their forecast of a 6.0 percent increase.

The mixed trade results came as worries over China’s growth outlook have increased this year after a series of generally weaker-than-expected statistics, though trade data distortions have partially clouded the situ-ation.

China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7.4 percent in the first three months of 2014, weaker than the 7.7 percent in October-December last year and the worst since a similar 7.4 percent expansion in the third quarter of 2012.

The country’s trade statistics this year have been erratic, with Beijing reporting an unexpected trade deficit of almost $23 billion in February, which authorities blamed on the Lunar New Year holiday season. That was China’s first monthly deficit in 11 months.

In March, China’s trade volumes fell dramatically in a development that analysts blamed on the continued impact of fake over-reporting of exports seen in early 2013.

In a sign of optimism for China’s economy, the country’s manufacturing sector has shown renewed vigour recently, with key surveys

indicating an improving situation.The National Bureau of Statistics an-

nounced a week ago that the official pur-chasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 50.8 in May from 50.4 in April, the third straight month of improvement and a five-month high.

And, on Tuesday, British banking giant HSBC released a private PMI survey that showed it came in at 49.4, the highest reading

since January’s 49.5.Both indexes are closely watched indica-

tors of the health of the economy. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.

China’s leaders say they want to transform the country’s growth model to one whereby consumer spending and other forms of pri-vate demand become the key driver for the economy, rather than over-reliance on huge and often wasteful investment projects that

have girded decades of expansion.Such a makeover is expected to result in

slower but more sustainable growth in the long run. China in March set its annual growth target for this year at about 7.5 percent, the same as last year.

The World Bank on Friday said it expects China’s economic growth to moderate over the next few years, with GDP expansion to slow to 7.6 percent this year.

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Markets have largely taken May’s military takeover in their stride, but there is still nervous-ness about a regime that has put the air force chief in charge of the economy and appointed the navy commander to oversee tourism.

Experts say the last putsch, in 2006, showed that soldiers lack the expertise to run Southeast Asia’s

second-largest economy.“The military government strug-

gled to manage the economy, reflecting the lack of technocratic skills in economic management and administration,” recalled Rajiv Biswas, chief Asia economist at the IHS consultancy firm.

The regime was also unable to move ahead with significant reforms because of its caretaker

status, he added.After the 2006 coup, markets

were particularly frightened by drastic foreign capital controls introduced several months later to try to curb the rise of the baht, noted Ryan Aherin, Asia analyst at risk advisory company Maple-croft.

“The measure was very unpopu-lar with investors, he said.

The Thai stock market suffered a plunge of 15 percent in just one day before authorities quickly backtracked.

The regime also briefly consid-ered limiting foreign investment in

businesses.By the time it abandoned the

idea, “investor sentiment had al-ready plummeted due to fears of na-tionalistic policies”, said Aherin.

So far, the Thai stock market is up about four percent since the May 22 coup, helped by buoyant global investment sentiment.

But Japan, Thailand’s largest foreign investor, is watching events with trepidation.

Japanese auto giants Toyota, Honda and Nissan have invested heavily in Thailand, attracted by its skilled workforce and the ease of doing business.

Even before the coup, Thai-land’s economy was reeling from nearly seven months of deadly street protests, which dented consumer confidence and scared off foreign tourists.

The economy shrank 2.1 percent quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of 2014, according to an official estimate. The fear is that it will contract again in the second quarter, sliding into recession.

“The economy is like a dy-ing person -- it’s sick so it needs oxygen,” said Tanit Sorat, vice chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI).

AP Photo/Andy WongSalesclerks are reflected on a mirror as they wait for customers at their store selling fashion accessories at a shopping mall in Beijing, China Monday, May 12, 2014. China’s trade surplus surged in May, official data showed Sunday, as export growth acceler-ated sharply while imports showed a surprise fall.

Thai coup raises fears for ‘sick’ economyAgence France-Presse

BANGKOK - The last time Thailand had a coup, the stock market crashed when the kingdom imposed draconian capital controls. This time around, investors hope the generals have learned their lesson.

China’s May trade surplus up to $35.92 billion

Bali Post

BANGLI - The existence of wa-ter hyacinth plants starting to fill the area of Lake Batur, in fact, brings in its own problems for local tour-ism operators. Its ever-expanding impact has made the regular tour-ist boat crossing from Songan to Trunyan difficult to anchor at the mouth of the lake. Such conditions forced travelers heading to Songan should be dropped at somewhat shallow location and then walked on the concrete building debris in the vicinity.

According to a local tour guide, Gede Mangku Mustika, Friday (Jun 6), the presence of water hyacinth growing widespread around the lake often reaped tourist com-plaints. In addition, travelers also often questioned why the water hyacinth growing in Lake Batur seemed to have been neglected and not cleaned up properly. “This condition is complained seriously by tourists because they are forced

to drop at somewhat shallow loca-tion,” he said.

He said that before the lake overflowed and filled with water hyacinth as the current condition, tour guides would usually escort their guests directly to the mouth of the lake. Meanwhile, today they dropped their guests by force in shallow location. Moreover, they were forced to walk on the concrete building debris on the edge of the lake which was certainly quite hazardous for them.

Mustika expected that such conditions could be dealt with to-gether. In addition to the public, the government in this case the relevant agencies should immediately inter-vene to clean up the water hyacinth plants very disturbing the travelers making a visit. Other than cleaning the lake region, the eradication of water hyacinth in the vicinity was also important to prevent the ac-celeration of siltation which had become the main problem in Lake Batur. (ina)

The Head of Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, said on Saturday (Jun 7) that as of April of this year, the tourist arrival reached 10,681 people. At the moment, it was the largest con-tributor of the total tourist arrival to Klungkung reach-ing 17,854 people. Sujana said that since March the tourist arrival was starting to enter a crowded period where many travelers were visiting Bali and taking the time to have a closer look at historical heritage.

Peak season of tourist visit to Kertha Gosa was estimated to occur in August. “Peak season usually happens from July to August,” said Sujana. Through-out the year 2013, a total of 54, 745 people visited Kertha Gosa. It was the third largest after the tourism area of Nusa Penida reaching 185,909 people and Goa Lawah Temple reaching 55,308 people, of the total tourist arrival of 298,979 people. The position decreased from 2012, where Kertha Gosa became the second largest contributor after tourism area of Nusa Penida reaching up to 60,262 people.

Apparently it would be difficult to pursue such number of tourist visit this year considering up to the first semester, the number of tourist visit had not reached 50 percent from the previous year. His party claimed the arrival to tourist attractions in Klung-kung was unpredictable. However, various kinds of promotional efforts had been made. Likewise, his party was going to renovate the Kertha Gosa with a budget of IDR 1 billion scheduled to be carried out this year. County government would soon restore the two main buildings at the tourist attraction because they had long suffered severe damage and threatened the values of classical Kamasan painting on the ceiling of the building.

His party hoped to always preserve the heritage of Klungkung kingdom. Historical values of the build-ings had become a magnet that could draw thousands of travelers to come every year. (kmb31)

IBP/File PhotoThe existence of water hyacinth plants starting to fill the area of Lake Batur, in fact, brings in its own problems for local tourism operators.

In Lake Batur Water hyacinth makes tourist boat hard to moor

On holiday

Hundreds of travelers throng Kertha GosaBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Ahead of holiday season, hundreds of foreign and domestic travelers throng the Kertha Gosa tourist attraction, Klungkung. Dozens of big buses arrive each day to have a closer look at the Klungkung kingdom’s heritage. This place retains tourist attraction, although both buildings are in damaged condition.

IBP/BagiartaAhead of holiday season, hundreds of foreign and domestic travelers throng the Kertha Gosa tourist attraction, Klungkung.

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Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said on Sunday that the Sharia-based tourism model introduced Islamic tourism objects incorporated with sharia values.

“The tourism potentials are managed by adopting the Islamic values,” the minister said.

The Islamic values that could be developed in the tourism sector included ‘halal’ (allowed based on Islamic law) culinary and Muslim apparel with Islamic values.

She said that many domestic and foreign tourists looked for ha-lal culinary tourism, and this would be more attractive if sharia-based culinary and fashion tourism were designed in interesting packages.

After all, Indonesia now has a

target of becoming a global hub of Muslim fashion by 2020, together with the growing Muslim fashion industry, Mari Elka Pangestu said earlier.

“Indonesia is seeking to become a global hub of the Muslim fashion industry by 2020,” she said here on Friday.

The domestic Muslim fashion industry was growing rapidly as reflected by its immense creativ-ity. Therefore, there was a reason for the country to become a global hub of the fashion industry, she said.

“The domestic Muslim fashion industry is extremely creative and the potential market for its prod-ucts is also large,” she added.

She expressed hope that every

region in the country will be able to tap their potential and be inspired to develop the Muslim fashion industry.

To achieve the target of being a global hub of the Muslim fashion industry, she said her ministry had organized the Muslim fashion fes-tival every year in Jakarta.

“We have organized the Muslim fashion festival in Jakarta every year,” she noted.

In addition, the government also had sponsored three noted Muslim fashion designers, including Dian Pelangi, to participate in overseas exhibitions, she said.

“We brought it (Muslim fashion design) to London. We received an extraordinary response there,” she added.


JAKARTA - US mining giant New-mont said Thursday it was placing thousands of workers at its Indonesian copper mine on leave and declared force majeure to avoid liability on existing orders, blaming new rules governing the sector.

It came two days after the miner, one of the biggest in resource-rich Indonesia, said that it was ceasing copper produc-tion at the Batu Hijau site as it has not exported for months due to the new regulations.

Southeast Asia’s top economy intro-duced the rules in January. They include a ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals and higher taxes for some com-modities that can still be shipped out of the country.

It is one of a raft of economic poli-cies pushed by nationalist politicians, who argue that Indonesia is losing out in potentially lucrative industries as foreign firms are reaping all the profits.

Copper concentrate, a partially pro-cessed product that is a major export for Newmont and its US peer Freeport-McMoRan, was exempt from the ban but the companies still faced paying the new,

higher taxes on shipments.But Newmont has refused as it says

the new levies conflict with its original agreements in Indonesia. Newmont and Freeport have been engaged in talks with the government to try to reach agreement.

The company said it would place 80 percent of its 4,000 employees at the mine on leave with reduced pay from Friday.

Martiono Hadianto, the head of Newmont’s Indonesian unit, added the company was “left with no option but to declare force majeure”.

Force majeure is a legal term releas-ing a company from obligation to fulfil existing contracts with its customers when faced with circumstances beyond its control.

Company spokesman Rubi Purnomo told AFP that force majeure was declared because “the company could not fulfil its obligation to produce and operate” at the mine on Sumbawa island, in central Indonesia.

The new rules are aimed at forcing foreign companies to build smelters and process raw minerals in Indonesia, but Newmont and Freeport argue this is not economically viable.

AntaraLEBAK - A number of community

leaders of Lebak District, Banten, ex-pressed hope that the next president would optimize the use of marine resources.

“We think that the marine resources have not yet been maximally tapped for the welfare of the people,” Baijuri, a noted community leader in Lebak, said on Sunday.

He said that whoever is elected in the upcoming July 9 presidential election should be able to exploit the country’s marine resources for the prosperity of the Indonesian people.

“We are sad to see our marine re-sources and a number of islands being annexed by other countries,” he said.

Baijuri said that so far the government had not yet been able to cultivate the country’s big marine potential.

Therefore, according to Al Idrus, another Lebak community leader, the next president is asked to take firm steps in protecting the country’s marine resources.

He said that the president so far had

not yet taken stern measures against fish theft in Indonesia’s waters and annexa-tion of the country’s islands.

“We hope that the next president will exploit the marine resources and protect outlaying islands from being annexed by neighboring countries,” he added.

There are now two presidential and vice presidential candidate pairs, Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa, who will contest the July 9 presi-dential election.

The Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla duo is supported by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), the National Democrat Party (NasDem), the Na-tional Awakening Party (PKB), and the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) with 207 seats or 36.96 percent of the House of Representatives (DPR)’s 560 seats.

The Prabowo-Hatta duo is supported by the Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra), the Golkar Party, the National Mandate Party, the Prosperous Justice Party, the United Development Party (PPP), and the Crescent and Star Party (PBB) with 292 seats or 52.14 percent in the parliament.

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

A young girl plays with a trike near a display of a Brazilian flag made to greet the up-coming 2014 World Cup, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 5, 2014.

Newmont declares force majeure at Indonesia mine, sends workers home

Next president expected to optimise marine resource utilization

Government introducing Sharia-based tourismAntara

BATAM - The government through the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy is in-troducing a sharia-base tourism to boost domestic and foreign tourist visits in Indonesia.

China, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have overlapping claims in the Spratlys, a group of mostly barren islands, reefs and atolls that are believed to be sitting atop oil and natural gas deposits and straddle some of the world’s most traversed sea lanes.

Although they’re technically rivals, Vietnam and the Philip-pines recently discussed ways to cooperate to ease tensions in the disputed waters, where both have been engaged in dangerous stand-offs with China. Southwest Cay Island, which the Philippines also claims and calls Pugad, used to be occupied by Filipino troops but was seized by Vietnamese forces in the 1970s.

During the games, each team comprised Vietnamese and Fili-

pinos to underscore the friendly nature of the event, Philippine navy spokesman Gerald Fabic said. “We’re trying to set an example,” he said. “We want to show that there can be other approaches to the disputes that can in fact ease the tensions.” The rare event aims “to foster camaraderie and friendly relations between the two nations,” the two navies said, adding it was “proof that disputes do not hinder development of practical and tan-gible cooperation.”

“This also serves as a model of cooperation for the other navies to emulate,” they said. China, which claims it has had sovereign rights over virtually the entire South China Sea since ancient times, has protested any military activity in the area other than its own. Beijing has so far ignored a call by the United

States and other governments for it to define the limits of its claims.

In early May, China deployed an oil rig in waters also claimed by Vietnam, setting off violent protests in the Southeast Asian country that killed at least two Chinese and led to the burning of several factories suspected to be owned by Chinese. The violence has since died down, but Chinese and Vietnamese ships remain in a tense standoff near the rig.

Chinese coast guard ships have also faced off against a small contingent of Philippine marines stationed on a grounded navy ship in the Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratlys since last year. The Chinese ships have tried to block Philippine civilian vessels deliver-ing fresh batch of marines and food supplies to the disputed shoal.


SYDNEY — Australian police on Sunday found human remains inside a large crocodile that is believed to have snatched a man from a boat in a popular national park.

Police found the remains inside a 4.7-meter (15-foot, 5-inch) saltwater crocodile that park rangers shot while searching for a 62-year-old man who was attacked in Kakadu National Park on Saturday, Northern Ter-ritory Police Sergeant Andrew Hocking said.

The crocodile was one of two that were shot about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the spot where the man was attacked, Hocking said.

Police were told the man, whose name has not been released, was on a boat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law when the crocodile snatched him.

The remains have not yet been formally identified. An investigation into the exact circumstances of the attack is underway.

It was the second deadly crocodile attack this year in Kakadu. In Janu-ary, a 12-year-old boy was killed and his friend mauled by a crocodile as they swam in a water hole in the park.

Crocodile numbers have swelled across Australia’s tropical north since the species was protected by federal law in 1971. The crocodile popula-tion is densest in the Northern Territory, where Kakadu is located.


U.S. authorities are investigating threats against the family of former Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl.

FBI spokesman William Facer said Saturday in a statement: “The FBI continues to monitor the situation in Hailey, Idaho. We are working jointly with our state and local partners and taking each threat seriously.”

The soldier’s parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, live in Hailey. Facer did not detail the nature of the threats.

Bergdahl’s hometown abruptly canceled plans Wednesday for a welcome-home celebration, citing security concerns.

The town of 8,000 has been swamped with hate mail and angry calls. Bergdahl’s release after five years of captivity in Afghanistan has touched off a debate over whether the 28-year-old should be given a hero’s welcome or punished as a deserter.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Vietnamese expatriates and Filipinos display placards as they join together in a rally in front of the Chinese Consulate at the financial district of Makati city to protest the recent moves by China to construct an oil rig near the Vietnamese-claimed Paracels off the contested Spratlys group of islands and shoals in the South China Sea Friday, May 16, 2014.

Vietnam, Philippines turn to sports in SpratlysAssociated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines — Vietnamese and Philippine naval personnel played football, volley-ball and tug of war Sunday in a rare display of camaraderie in a South China Sea island chain where territorial rifts with China have flared alarmingly. The daylong sports festival was held on Vietnamese-occupied Southwest Cay Island and also included cultural presentations, the two countries’ navies said in a joint statement. Philippine officials said about 40 Filipino navy personnel sailed by boat to the island, bringing local delicacies such as rice cakes.

Australian police find human remains in crocodile

FBI investigates threats against Bergdahl family

AP Photo/IntelCenter

FILE - This image from video made available by IntelCenter shows a Taliban propaganda video released Friday, Dec. 25, 2009 purportedly showing U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl who was captured over five months earlier in eastern Afghani-stan.

Reuters

NEW YORK - Miguel Cotto used a furious start to win the World Boxing Council middleweight championship as title holder Sergio Martinez of Argentina surrendered the crown when he did not answer the bell for the 10th round on Sat-urday. Cotto, with a ferocious left hook and punishing combinations, knocked Martinez down three times in the first round, and continued to dominate the scheduled 12-round bout at Madison Square Garden.

Martinez’s corner waved an end to the fight as the bell rang for round 10. The Argentine, who wore supportive sleeves on both his knees, was cut near his right eye and over his left eye and his knees buckled several times during the one-sided contest.

Cotto, 33, became the first Puerto Rican ever to win titles in four

different weight divisions after previously holding the junior wel-terweight, welterweight and super welterweight crowns. “This is the biggest achievement I ever had in my career,” said Cotto, who im-proved to 39-4 while the 39-year-old Martinez fell to 51-3-2.

Martinez said he never recovered from Cotto’s stunning start. “I got hit and I never recovered after that. I tried my best,” said Martinez, speak-ing through a translator. “He caught me cold, he caught me hard at the be-ginning and I didn’t recover from it.” Martinez looked set to continue, de-spite buckling after another powerful left in the ninth round that the referee ruled a knockdown even though the Argentine did not touch the canvas. But his corner surrendered.

“More than a boxer, he’s my brother and he’s my friend,” said trainer Pablo Sarmiento. Freddie

Roach, Cotto’s trainer, said the win-ner executed the game plan to per-fection. “I’m really proud of him,” Roach said. “We had a great game plan and he followed it to a tee.”

Roach said Cotto maneuvered Martinez masterfully. “He had him moving into the hook all night long,” Roach said. “Miguel is a better boxer than Martinez.”

Cotto landed twice as many punches in the bout and also proved to be the bigger puncher even though he was fighting at the 160-pound limit for the first time in his career.

Martinez, 39, has had physical ills to contend with, showing the effects of shoulder and knee operations in holding off Briton Martin Murray in a battle last April in Buenos Aires despite being knocked down in the eighth. The loser did not attend the post-fight news conference.

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BANGLI - A pleasant, cool village with A I breathtaking views is located not far from the road to Bangli from Kintamani. It is only some 700 me-ters above sea level. There is a traditional village called Penglipuran that belongs to the administra-tive regency of Kubu. There are different versions of the meaning of Penglipuran, One version says that the word Penglipuran is philologically derived from two words, pengeling literally means remem-brance and pura means temple.

The villagers formerly migrated from the village of Bayung Gede near Kintamani. To remember their original village and beloved ancestors, they then built the same temple as their own at Bayung Gede village. The layout of this completely unique village is like a ‘housing complex’ where the space arrangement is neat and carefully designed.

It is quite different from other villages in gen-eral. This village stretches from the north to the south following the direction of the mountain. The village temple is located on the highest point and at the end of the village. Nearly all the main houses still use the traditional roof of artistic bamboo blades with walls painted in natural colors like that of soil.

And each compound consistently maintains the original design of the versatile bale (pavilion). Walking along the spacious paved street in the mid-dle of the traditional village and small garden along the telajakan (the space between the compound and the street) will give you the impression o fa beauti-ful park. The village looks neat as there are no high rise buildings. It is the harmonious combination of a traditional concept with modern techniques. When you see the uniform kori (entrance gate) with a bamboo roof you will be reminded that it is a traditional village. This kind of structure is now widely adopted for tourist accommodation.

Traditional Penglipuran

IBP/File Photo

Showing nerves of steel that would have made seasoned cham-pions proud, grand-slam final debu-tante Halep fought, believed and risked everything for three hours and two minutes before a backhand into the tramlines allowed Sharapova to hug the Suzanne Lenglen Cup for a second time in three years. A woman who had played three successive three-set matches to reach the final was left in no doubt about where her 6-4 6-7(5) 6-4 win over Halep stood among her major wins.

“This is the toughest grand slam final I have ever played and all respect to Simona as she played an unbelievable match today,” an emotional Sharapova told the crowd during a victory speech in three dif-ferent languages. “I can’t believe it, seven or eight years ago I would not have thought that I would win more Roland Garros titles than any other grand slam.

“To think I won it twice... I’m so emotional right now, I don’t know what language to speak... English, Russian or French.” While Sharapova clambered up the stands to hug her three-man entourage, which included coach Sven Groe-neveld, a distraught Halep sat on her courtside bench with a towel over her head wondering what might

have been.“Yes. I was crying at that mo-

ment for a few minutes, and then I was smiling because ... it was my first grand slam final and I did everything on court,” said Halep, who was bidding to become the first Romanian in 36 years to win a grand slam crown. “I played very good tennis, very good level. So I’m really proud about these two weeks. They were incredible weeks here ... and it was an amazing feeling on court today,” added Halep after picking up the 825,000 euros ($1.13 million) runners-up cheque that will go some way towards soothing her pain.

Sharapova’s purse was double that but for a woman whose worth is said to be close to $100 million, the prize money was largely insig-nificant. What she really wanted to take away from Roland Garros was the trophy.

STEAL TROPHY“I wish I could keep the big

(trophy) ... I might have to steal it. There is a reason why I haven’t been to one shop while I have been in Paris. It’s because I want this. I haven’t eaten many macaroons, either. It’s because I want this,” Sharapova said after recording her 50th win at Roland Garros. Pari-

sians had not been treated to a three-set women’s final at the claycourt major for 13 years but Sharapova and Halep made up for lost time in a match that seemed to have never-ending twists and turns.

A battle that started with the sun beating down on Philippe Chatrier Court - featuring 227 points, 83 un-forced errors, 66 winners, 33 break points, 16 breaks and 12 Sharapova double faults - turned into a contest that was the longest women’s final in Paris since 1996. The double faults became a recurring nightmare for Sharapova as she kept gifting her fourth-seeded rival break points.

It cost her the opening game be-fore she levelled for 2-2. Serving for the set at 5-3, another double fault left Sharapova cursing her luck as she got broken. With one tendon-twisting rally being followed by another sinew-stretching point, Sharapova’s shrieks started to hit new heights and left one baby high up in the stands crying her lungs out just as the Russian earned her second set point on Halep’s serve.

No stranger to making a noisy racket herself, the seventh seed blocked out the commotion to snatch the set as a distracted Halep whipped the ball wide on set point.

Shrieking Sharapova silences Halep in ParisReuters

PARIS - Her 12 double faults were a nuisance and the non-stop shrieks that punctured the air for more than three hours even made a baby wail, yet all Maria Sharapova will want to remember from the French Open is the moment she sunk to her knees in triumph. The Russian had scrapped in eight major finals, winning four of them, but never before had she been taken to three sets in a showpiece match until she ran into a tireless Romanian named Simona Halep on Saturday.

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes Maria Sharapova of Russia poses with her trophy near the Eiffel Tower in Paris a day after winning the women’s singles final match during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 8, 2014.

Cotto clobbers Martinez, wins middleweight title

REUTERS/Brendan McDermidMiguel Cotto (L) lands a punch on Sergio Martinez in the 9th round of their WBC middleweight title bout at Madison Square Garden in New York June 7, 2014. Cotto defeated Martinez in the 9th round.

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SEMI FINALS SEMI FINALS

July 4

Fortaleza

paz

piza

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July 4

Rio de Janeiro

July 5

Brasilia

July 5

Salvador de Bahia

July 8

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

July 9

Sao Paulo

July 13

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3rd place playoff

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Rio de Janeiro

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Recife

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Brasilia

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Brazil - Croatia June 12 - Sao Paulo

Mexico - Cameroon

Croatia - Cameroon

June 13 - Natal

Brazil - MexicoJune 17 - Fortaleza

June 18 - Manaos

Brazil - Cameroon June 23 - Brasilia

Croatia - MexicoJune 23 - Recife

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Chile - Australia

Spain - Netherlands

Netherlands - Australia

Spain - Chile

Spain - Australia

Netherlands - Chile

June 13 - Cuiaba

June 13 - Salvador de Bahia

June 18 - Porto Alegre

June 18 - Rio de Janeiro

June 23 - Curitiba

June 23 - Sao Paulo

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Colombia - Greece

Colombia - Ivory Coast

Colombia - Japan

Greece - Japan

Greece - Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast - Japan

June 14 - Belo Horizonte

June 14 - Recife

June 19 - Brasilia

June 19 - Natal

June 24 - Cuiaba

June 24 - Fortaleza

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Uruguay - Costa Rica

Uruguay - England

Costa Rica - Italy

Costa Rica - England

England - Italy

Uruguay - Italy

June 14 - Fortaleza

June 14 - Manaos

June 19 - Sao Paulo

June 20 - Recife


June 24 - Natal

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Switzerland - France

Switzerland - Honduras

France - Honduras

Ecuador - Honduras

Ecuador - France

June 15 - Brasilia


June 20 - Curitiba

June 25 - Manaos


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Bosnia Herz. - Nigeria

Bosnia Herz. - Iran

Argentina - Iran

Argentina - Nigeria

Iran - Nigeria


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June 21 - Cuiaba


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June 16 - Natal

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Germany - Ghana

Germany - USA

Portugal - USA

Ghana - USA

Portugal - Ghana


June 21 - Fortaleza

June 22 - Manaos

June 26 - Brasilia

June 26 - Recife

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Belgium - Russia

Belgium - South Korea

Algeria - South Korea

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June 26 - Curitiba

June 26 - Sao Paulo

Vicente Del Bosque’s team squan-dered a chance to take an early lead when Diego Costa was felled in the penalty area by goalkeeper Henry Hernandez and Cesc Fabregas smashed his fourth-minute spot kick over the crossbar.

Villa, whose goals helped propel Spain to their maiden world title in South Africa four years ago, came off the bench at the break and was in the right place to nod in a Sergio Ramos knockdown in the 60th minute.

Another substitute, Sergio Bus-quets, crashed a long-range effort


MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — England and Honduras drew 0-0 in a fiery and physical final World Cup warm-up match that saw Honduras defender Brayan Beckeles sent off at Sun Life Stadium on Saturday. The weather was as wild as some of the action on the pitch in Miami Gardens, with the game halted midway through the first half for 45 minutes due to a lightning storm.

England struggled to create scor-ing chances even with a man advan-tage, and the pressure will grow for Ross Barkley to start in Brazil after the 20-year-old midfielder raised the tempo when he came on at half time. “If you look at the chances we had the better, but we’re quite frustrated,” captain Steven Gerrard said. “The ref was poor, the game was interrupted, there was a big one in the first half and

they were doing stupid fouls. There was no rhythm. We’re frustrated but relieved at no injuries.

“There were some horrific tackles for a friendly. I got caught with a bad one.” Beckeles, who had been booked for a lunge on Danny Welbeck, was shown a second yellow card in the 66th minute after catching Leighton Baines’ face with his elbow. “The les-son is we can’t play with 10, we need to be more careful,” Honduras coach Luis Fernando Suarez said through a translator.

Honduras kicks off its World Cup campaign next Sunday against France, a day after England opens against Italy. The hot and humid conditions were exactly what England came to Miami for, but not the storm that worsened during the opening 20 minutes. Before the disruption, Wayne Rooney’s free kick was spilled by Noel Valladares but no England player was primed

to exploit the goalkeeper’s shakiness. And, when Rooney set up Daniel Sturridge, the striker struck wide on the turn.

Warning messages flashed up on stadium big screens urging fans to first leave their uncovered seats, and then for the players to go off the pitch. “We were just about to slice through them and it was a great relief for them when the rain came,” England goalkeeper Joe Hart said. When they returned, Emilio Izaguirre was fortunate not to be sent off for tripping Sturridge and then kicking the striker as he was on the ground. The defender was only booked by Ricardo Salazar.

“I don’t understand refs seeing balls slammed into players’ chests,” Gerrard said. “It’s a clear red card.” England was more threatening after the break when Rooney and captain Gerrard were replaced by the youth-

Reuters

NEW YORK - Cristiano Ronaldo, suffer-ing with tendinosis around his left knee and an injury to his right thigh, trained with his Portugal team mates on Saturday for the first time since joining the World Cup squad 10 days ago.

Midfielder Raul Meireles was also involved in the session but central defender Pepe con-tinued to train separately, the Portuguese Foot-ball Federation (FPF) said in a statement.

According to media reports, Ronaldo did not show any limitations during the first 15 minutes of the session which were open to the media.

The World Player of the Year missed the re-cent friendlies against Greece and Mexico.

Ronaldo, 29, struggled with minor injuries during the closing weeks of Real Madrid’s season before playing 120 minutes in the Champions League final against Atletico Madrid and scoring the final goal in their 4-1 win, with a penalty.

Portugal, who are training just outside New York, face Germany in their opening World Cup match on June 16. They also face United States and Ghana in their group.

Meireles has a problem in his left thigh and Pepe a muscular injury in his right leg.


SAO PAULO — The company that runs the subway system in the city host-ing the World Cup opening match said Saturday that all five of its lines were operating either partially or normally as workers enter the third day of a strike for higher wages. Maria Figaro, spokes-woman for the subway workers union said the lines were being operated by management personnel and newly hired trainees.

“The strike will most likely continue until our demands are met,” Figaro said. She said the union reduced its initial demand, from a 16 to 12.2 percent wage hike, but the company insists it can only afford an 8.7 percent raise. The subway strike in Sao Paulo illustrates the potential for disruptions during the World Cup, which opens here on Thursday. The more than 3.5 million people who use the city’s public transit systems on weekdays faced chaos as subway lines operated in recent days with limited service.

The Sao Paulo Regional Labor Court

is scheduled to rule Sunday on the legality of the strike. The strike worries authori-ties because most soccer fans heading to the Itaquerao stadium for the opening match will need to use the subway. Cup organizers have fretted for that a resur-gence of mass anti-government protests could mar soccer’s premier event, with all the world watching.

But in recent weeks, strikes by pub-lic transport workers, police, teachers and others in several Cup host cities has proved more disruptive than anti-government demonstrations.

Unions across Brazil have used the World Cup as leverage to get conces-sions from authorities and so far, it’s often worked. Federal police officers and garbage collectors in Rio de Janeiro were able to win better wages recently.

Unions argue that high inflation is eat-ing away at workers’ purchasing power. The government’s statistics agency said Friday that the benchmark consumer price index rose 6.37 percent in the 12 months through May. Other cities have also seen union action.

AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo listens to the national anthems prior a friendly soccer match between Portugal and Greece at the National stadium, in Oeiras, near Lisbon, Saturday, May 31, 2014.

Ronaldo back in training with Portugal

AP Photo/J Pat Carter

England’ Danny Welbeck (11) and Honduras’ Brayan Beck-eles (21) battle for the ball during the first half of a friendly soccer match in Miami Gardens, Fla., Saturday, June 7, 2014.

England, Honduras draw physical WCup warm-up 0-0

Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports

Spain striker David Villa (7) celebrates after scoring a

goal against El Salvador in the second half at FedEx

Field. Spain won 2-0.

Villa double gives Spain warmup win over El SalvadorReuters

WASHINGTON - David Villa struck twice to extend his record goal tally for Spain to 58 as the World Cup holders eased to a 2-0 win over El Salvador on Saturday in their last warmup game before the finals in Brazil. Spain dominated the Central American minnows at the FedEx Stadium and barely broke into a sweat in securing a comfortable victory ahead of their opening Group B match against Netherlands in Salvador on Friday.

against the crossbar in the 80th minute before goalkeeper David De Gea made his debut for La Roja when he replaced captain Iker Casillas for the final 10 minutes. David Silva floated the ball into the area three minutes from time and Villa chested it down before firing into the corner on his 96th appearance.

“We know that Villa, in tight spaces, is one of the best forwards in the world,” Del Bosque told a news conference. “The feelings are good and we are optimistic about the start of the competition. We perhaps lacked

fluidity and precision when closing in on goal but we kept our shape well.” Villa, 32, announced this week he was leaving Atletico Madrid to join Major League Soccer team New York City.

He has not been the same lethal marksman since breaking his leg at the end of 2011 but his double is good news for Spain as they bid to become only the third nation to retain the World Cup after Italy in 1938 and Brazil in 1962. Del Bosque had the players from Champions League final-ists Real Madrid and Atletico available after they joined up with the rest of

the squad on Monday and it was a chance to test the fitness of the likes of Costa.

The Brazil-born Atletico forward struggled with a series of niggling muscle injuries in the final weeks of the domestic season but looked fit and lively before being replaced by Xavi in the 73rd minute. Jordi Alba took a painful-looking knock to his ankle in the first half but Del Bosque said the Barcelona left back had not sustained serious injury.

ful legs of Barkley and Jack Wilshere. Barkley quickly unleashed a shot from outside the penalty area, and later burst forward unchallenged to feed Stur-ridge, who chipped wide.

It was surprising that it took until the 66th for a red card to be shown, but England could not exploit its man advantage. Although Barkley was adding energy and pace with his runs,

Sturridge squandered another open-ing when he headed wide from Glen Johnson’s cross.

“It was a real stop-start game, one of the most frustrating I’ve been involved in for a long time,” England coach Roy Hodgson said. “We had a long stoppage, I thought we dealt with it and in the second half it was attack vs. defense.

Brazil subway workers strike enters 3rd day

Reuters

NEW YORK - Miguel Cotto used a furious start to win the World Boxing Council middleweight championship as title holder Sergio Martinez of Argentina surrendered the crown when he did not answer the bell for the 10th round on Sat-urday. Cotto, with a ferocious left hook and punishing combinations, knocked Martinez down three times in the first round, and continued to dominate the scheduled 12-round bout at Madison Square Garden.

Martinez’s corner waved an end to the fight as the bell rang for round 10. The Argentine, who wore supportive sleeves on both his knees, was cut near his right eye and over his left eye and his knees buckled several times during the one-sided contest.

Cotto, 33, became the first Puerto Rican ever to win titles in four

different weight divisions after previously holding the junior wel-terweight, welterweight and super welterweight crowns. “This is the biggest achievement I ever had in my career,” said Cotto, who im-proved to 39-4 while the 39-year-old Martinez fell to 51-3-2.

Martinez said he never recovered from Cotto’s stunning start. “I got hit and I never recovered after that. I tried my best,” said Martinez, speak-ing through a translator. “He caught me cold, he caught me hard at the be-ginning and I didn’t recover from it.” Martinez looked set to continue, de-spite buckling after another powerful left in the ninth round that the referee ruled a knockdown even though the Argentine did not touch the canvas. But his corner surrendered.

“More than a boxer, he’s my brother and he’s my friend,” said trainer Pablo Sarmiento. Freddie

Roach, Cotto’s trainer, said the win-ner executed the game plan to per-fection. “I’m really proud of him,” Roach said. “We had a great game plan and he followed it to a tee.”

Roach said Cotto maneuvered Martinez masterfully. “He had him moving into the hook all night long,” Roach said. “Miguel is a better boxer than Martinez.”

Cotto landed twice as many punches in the bout and also proved to be the bigger puncher even though he was fighting at the 160-pound limit for the first time in his career.

Martinez, 39, has had physical ills to contend with, showing the effects of shoulder and knee operations in holding off Briton Martin Murray in a battle last April in Buenos Aires despite being knocked down in the eighth. The loser did not attend the post-fight news conference.

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IBP

BANGLI - A pleasant, cool village with A I breathtaking views is located not far from the road to Bangli from Kintamani. It is only some 700 me-ters above sea level. There is a traditional village called Penglipuran that belongs to the administra-tive regency of Kubu. There are different versions of the meaning of Penglipuran, One version says that the word Penglipuran is philologically derived from two words, pengeling literally means remem-brance and pura means temple.

The villagers formerly migrated from the village of Bayung Gede near Kintamani. To remember their original village and beloved ancestors, they then built the same temple as their own at Bayung Gede village. The layout of this completely unique village is like a ‘housing complex’ where the space arrangement is neat and carefully designed.

It is quite different from other villages in gen-eral. This village stretches from the north to the south following the direction of the mountain. The village temple is located on the highest point and at the end of the village. Nearly all the main houses still use the traditional roof of artistic bamboo blades with walls painted in natural colors like that of soil.

And each compound consistently maintains the original design of the versatile bale (pavilion). Walking along the spacious paved street in the mid-dle of the traditional village and small garden along the telajakan (the space between the compound and the street) will give you the impression o fa beauti-ful park. The village looks neat as there are no high rise buildings. It is the harmonious combination of a traditional concept with modern techniques. When you see the uniform kori (entrance gate) with a bamboo roof you will be reminded that it is a traditional village. This kind of structure is now widely adopted for tourist accommodation.

Traditional Penglipuran

IBP/File Photo

Showing nerves of steel that would have made seasoned cham-pions proud, grand-slam final debu-tante Halep fought, believed and risked everything for three hours and two minutes before a backhand into the tramlines allowed Sharapova to hug the Suzanne Lenglen Cup for a second time in three years. A woman who had played three successive three-set matches to reach the final was left in no doubt about where her 6-4 6-7(5) 6-4 win over Halep stood among her major wins.

“This is the toughest grand slam final I have ever played and all respect to Simona as she played an unbelievable match today,” an emotional Sharapova told the crowd during a victory speech in three dif-ferent languages. “I can’t believe it, seven or eight years ago I would not have thought that I would win more Roland Garros titles than any other grand slam.

“To think I won it twice... I’m so emotional right now, I don’t know what language to speak... English, Russian or French.” While Sharapova clambered up the stands to hug her three-man entourage, which included coach Sven Groe-neveld, a distraught Halep sat on her courtside bench with a towel over her head wondering what might

have been.“Yes. I was crying at that mo-

ment for a few minutes, and then I was smiling because ... it was my first grand slam final and I did everything on court,” said Halep, who was bidding to become the first Romanian in 36 years to win a grand slam crown. “I played very good tennis, very good level. So I’m really proud about these two weeks. They were incredible weeks here ... and it was an amazing feeling on court today,” added Halep after picking up the 825,000 euros ($1.13 million) runners-up cheque that will go some way towards soothing her pain.

Sharapova’s purse was double that but for a woman whose worth is said to be close to $100 million, the prize money was largely insig-nificant. What she really wanted to take away from Roland Garros was the trophy.

STEAL TROPHY“I wish I could keep the big

(trophy) ... I might have to steal it. There is a reason why I haven’t been to one shop while I have been in Paris. It’s because I want this. I haven’t eaten many macaroons, either. It’s because I want this,” Sharapova said after recording her 50th win at Roland Garros. Pari-

sians had not been treated to a three-set women’s final at the claycourt major for 13 years but Sharapova and Halep made up for lost time in a match that seemed to have never-ending twists and turns.

A battle that started with the sun beating down on Philippe Chatrier Court - featuring 227 points, 83 un-forced errors, 66 winners, 33 break points, 16 breaks and 12 Sharapova double faults - turned into a contest that was the longest women’s final in Paris since 1996. The double faults became a recurring nightmare for Sharapova as she kept gifting her fourth-seeded rival break points.

It cost her the opening game be-fore she levelled for 2-2. Serving for the set at 5-3, another double fault left Sharapova cursing her luck as she got broken. With one tendon-twisting rally being followed by another sinew-stretching point, Sharapova’s shrieks started to hit new heights and left one baby high up in the stands crying her lungs out just as the Russian earned her second set point on Halep’s serve.

No stranger to making a noisy racket herself, the seventh seed blocked out the commotion to snatch the set as a distracted Halep whipped the ball wide on set point.

Shrieking Sharapova silences Halep in ParisReuters

PARIS - Her 12 double faults were a nuisance and the non-stop shrieks that punctured the air for more than three hours even made a baby wail, yet all Maria Sharapova will want to remember from the French Open is the moment she sunk to her knees in triumph. The Russian had scrapped in eight major finals, winning four of them, but never before had she been taken to three sets in a showpiece match until she ran into a tireless Romanian named Simona Halep on Saturday.

REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes Maria Sharapova of Russia poses with her trophy near the Eiffel Tower in Paris a day after winning the women’s singles final match during the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris June 8, 2014.

Cotto clobbers Martinez, wins middleweight title

REUTERS/Brendan McDermidMiguel Cotto (L) lands a punch on Sergio Martinez in the 9th round of their WBC middleweight title bout at Madison Square Garden in New York June 7, 2014. Cotto defeated Martinez in the 9th round.

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Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said on Sunday that the Sharia-based tourism model introduced Islamic tourism objects incorporated with sharia values.

“The tourism potentials are managed by adopting the Islamic values,” the minister said.

The Islamic values that could be developed in the tourism sector included ‘halal’ (allowed based on Islamic law) culinary and Muslim apparel with Islamic values.

She said that many domestic and foreign tourists looked for ha-lal culinary tourism, and this would be more attractive if sharia-based culinary and fashion tourism were designed in interesting packages.

After all, Indonesia now has a

target of becoming a global hub of Muslim fashion by 2020, together with the growing Muslim fashion industry, Mari Elka Pangestu said earlier.

“Indonesia is seeking to become a global hub of the Muslim fashion industry by 2020,” she said here on Friday.

The domestic Muslim fashion industry was growing rapidly as reflected by its immense creativ-ity. Therefore, there was a reason for the country to become a global hub of the fashion industry, she said.

“The domestic Muslim fashion industry is extremely creative and the potential market for its prod-ucts is also large,” she added.

She expressed hope that every

region in the country will be able to tap their potential and be inspired to develop the Muslim fashion industry.

To achieve the target of being a global hub of the Muslim fashion industry, she said her ministry had organized the Muslim fashion fes-tival every year in Jakarta.

“We have organized the Muslim fashion festival in Jakarta every year,” she noted.

In addition, the government also had sponsored three noted Muslim fashion designers, including Dian Pelangi, to participate in overseas exhibitions, she said.

“We brought it (Muslim fashion design) to London. We received an extraordinary response there,” she added.


JAKARTA - US mining giant New-mont said Thursday it was placing thousands of workers at its Indonesian copper mine on leave and declared force majeure to avoid liability on existing orders, blaming new rules governing the sector.

It came two days after the miner, one of the biggest in resource-rich Indonesia, said that it was ceasing copper produc-tion at the Batu Hijau site as it has not exported for months due to the new regulations.

Southeast Asia’s top economy intro-duced the rules in January. They include a ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals and higher taxes for some com-modities that can still be shipped out of the country.

It is one of a raft of economic poli-cies pushed by nationalist politicians, who argue that Indonesia is losing out in potentially lucrative industries as foreign firms are reaping all the profits.

Copper concentrate, a partially pro-cessed product that is a major export for Newmont and its US peer Freeport-McMoRan, was exempt from the ban but the companies still faced paying the new,

higher taxes on shipments.But Newmont has refused as it says

the new levies conflict with its original agreements in Indonesia. Newmont and Freeport have been engaged in talks with the government to try to reach agreement.

The company said it would place 80 percent of its 4,000 employees at the mine on leave with reduced pay from Friday.

Martiono Hadianto, the head of Newmont’s Indonesian unit, added the company was “left with no option but to declare force majeure”.

Force majeure is a legal term releas-ing a company from obligation to fulfil existing contracts with its customers when faced with circumstances beyond its control.

Company spokesman Rubi Purnomo told AFP that force majeure was declared because “the company could not fulfil its obligation to produce and operate” at the mine on Sumbawa island, in central Indonesia.

The new rules are aimed at forcing foreign companies to build smelters and process raw minerals in Indonesia, but Newmont and Freeport argue this is not economically viable.

AntaraLEBAK - A number of community

leaders of Lebak District, Banten, ex-pressed hope that the next president would optimize the use of marine resources.

“We think that the marine resources have not yet been maximally tapped for the welfare of the people,” Baijuri, a noted community leader in Lebak, said on Sunday.

He said that whoever is elected in the upcoming July 9 presidential election should be able to exploit the country’s marine resources for the prosperity of the Indonesian people.

“We are sad to see our marine re-sources and a number of islands being annexed by other countries,” he said.

Baijuri said that so far the government had not yet been able to cultivate the country’s big marine potential.

Therefore, according to Al Idrus, another Lebak community leader, the next president is asked to take firm steps in protecting the country’s marine resources.

He said that the president so far had

not yet taken stern measures against fish theft in Indonesia’s waters and annexa-tion of the country’s islands.

“We hope that the next president will exploit the marine resources and protect outlaying islands from being annexed by neighboring countries,” he added.

There are now two presidential and vice presidential candidate pairs, Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa, who will contest the July 9 presi-dential election.

The Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla duo is supported by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), the National Democrat Party (NasDem), the Na-tional Awakening Party (PKB), and the People’s Conscience Party (Hanura) with 207 seats or 36.96 percent of the House of Representatives (DPR)’s 560 seats.

The Prabowo-Hatta duo is supported by the Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra), the Golkar Party, the National Mandate Party, the Prosperous Justice Party, the United Development Party (PPP), and the Crescent and Star Party (PBB) with 292 seats or 52.14 percent in the parliament.

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

A young girl plays with a trike near a display of a Brazilian flag made to greet the up-coming 2014 World Cup, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 5, 2014.

Newmont declares force majeure at Indonesia mine, sends workers home

Next president expected to optimise marine resource utilization

Government introducing Sharia-based tourismAntara

BATAM - The government through the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy is in-troducing a sharia-base tourism to boost domestic and foreign tourist visits in Indonesia.

China, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have overlapping claims in the Spratlys, a group of mostly barren islands, reefs and atolls that are believed to be sitting atop oil and natural gas deposits and straddle some of the world’s most traversed sea lanes.

Although they’re technically rivals, Vietnam and the Philip-pines recently discussed ways to cooperate to ease tensions in the disputed waters, where both have been engaged in dangerous stand-offs with China. Southwest Cay Island, which the Philippines also claims and calls Pugad, used to be occupied by Filipino troops but was seized by Vietnamese forces in the 1970s.

During the games, each team comprised Vietnamese and Fili-

pinos to underscore the friendly nature of the event, Philippine navy spokesman Gerald Fabic said. “We’re trying to set an example,” he said. “We want to show that there can be other approaches to the disputes that can in fact ease the tensions.” The rare event aims “to foster camaraderie and friendly relations between the two nations,” the two navies said, adding it was “proof that disputes do not hinder development of practical and tan-gible cooperation.”

“This also serves as a model of cooperation for the other navies to emulate,” they said. China, which claims it has had sovereign rights over virtually the entire South China Sea since ancient times, has protested any military activity in the area other than its own. Beijing has so far ignored a call by the United

States and other governments for it to define the limits of its claims.

In early May, China deployed an oil rig in waters also claimed by Vietnam, setting off violent protests in the Southeast Asian country that killed at least two Chinese and led to the burning of several factories suspected to be owned by Chinese. The violence has since died down, but Chinese and Vietnamese ships remain in a tense standoff near the rig.

Chinese coast guard ships have also faced off against a small contingent of Philippine marines stationed on a grounded navy ship in the Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratlys since last year. The Chinese ships have tried to block Philippine civilian vessels deliver-ing fresh batch of marines and food supplies to the disputed shoal.


SYDNEY — Australian police on Sunday found human remains inside a large crocodile that is believed to have snatched a man from a boat in a popular national park.

Police found the remains inside a 4.7-meter (15-foot, 5-inch) saltwater crocodile that park rangers shot while searching for a 62-year-old man who was attacked in Kakadu National Park on Saturday, Northern Ter-ritory Police Sergeant Andrew Hocking said.

The crocodile was one of two that were shot about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) from the spot where the man was attacked, Hocking said.

Police were told the man, whose name has not been released, was on a boat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law when the crocodile snatched him.

The remains have not yet been formally identified. An investigation into the exact circumstances of the attack is underway.

It was the second deadly crocodile attack this year in Kakadu. In Janu-ary, a 12-year-old boy was killed and his friend mauled by a crocodile as they swam in a water hole in the park.

Crocodile numbers have swelled across Australia’s tropical north since the species was protected by federal law in 1971. The crocodile popula-tion is densest in the Northern Territory, where Kakadu is located.


U.S. authorities are investigating threats against the family of former Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl.

FBI spokesman William Facer said Saturday in a statement: “The FBI continues to monitor the situation in Hailey, Idaho. We are working jointly with our state and local partners and taking each threat seriously.”

The soldier’s parents, Bob and Jani Bergdahl, live in Hailey. Facer did not detail the nature of the threats.

Bergdahl’s hometown abruptly canceled plans Wednesday for a welcome-home celebration, citing security concerns.

The town of 8,000 has been swamped with hate mail and angry calls. Bergdahl’s release after five years of captivity in Afghanistan has touched off a debate over whether the 28-year-old should be given a hero’s welcome or punished as a deserter.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Vietnamese expatriates and Filipinos display placards as they join together in a rally in front of the Chinese Consulate at the financial district of Makati city to protest the recent moves by China to construct an oil rig near the Vietnamese-claimed Paracels off the contested Spratlys group of islands and shoals in the South China Sea Friday, May 16, 2014.

Vietnam, Philippines turn to sports in SpratlysAssociated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines — Vietnamese and Philippine naval personnel played football, volley-ball and tug of war Sunday in a rare display of camaraderie in a South China Sea island chain where territorial rifts with China have flared alarmingly. The daylong sports festival was held on Vietnamese-occupied Southwest Cay Island and also included cultural presentations, the two countries’ navies said in a joint statement. Philippine officials said about 40 Filipino navy personnel sailed by boat to the island, bringing local delicacies such as rice cakes.

Australian police find human remains in crocodile

FBI investigates threats against Bergdahl family

AP Photo/IntelCenter

FILE - This image from video made available by IntelCenter shows a Taliban propaganda video released Friday, Dec. 25, 2009 purportedly showing U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl who was captured over five months earlier in eastern Afghani-stan.


BEIJING - China’s trade surplus surged in May, official data showed Sunday, as export growth accelerated sharply while imports showed a surprise fall.

Exports increased 7 percent to $195.47 bil-lion year-on-year, the General Administration of Customs announced, while imports de-clined 1.6 percent to $159.55 billion, resulting in a surplus of $35.92 billion -- a 74.9 percent jump from the same month last year.

The result, China’s third straight monthly surplus, surpassed the median forecast of a surplus of $23.4 billion in a survey of 15 economists by Dow Jones.

Exports, which sharply outpaced April’s 0.9 percent gain, were in line with the me-dian prediction of a 7.2 percent rise, while imports missed their forecast of a 6.0 percent increase.

The mixed trade results came as worries over China’s growth outlook have increased this year after a series of generally weaker-than-expected statistics, though trade data distortions have partially clouded the situ-ation.

China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7.4 percent in the first three months of 2014, weaker than the 7.7 percent in October-December last year and the worst since a similar 7.4 percent expansion in the third quarter of 2012.

The country’s trade statistics this year have been erratic, with Beijing reporting an unexpected trade deficit of almost $23 billion in February, which authorities blamed on the Lunar New Year holiday season. That was China’s first monthly deficit in 11 months.

In March, China’s trade volumes fell dramatically in a development that analysts blamed on the continued impact of fake over-reporting of exports seen in early 2013.

In a sign of optimism for China’s economy, the country’s manufacturing sector has shown renewed vigour recently, with key surveys

indicating an improving situation.The National Bureau of Statistics an-

nounced a week ago that the official pur-chasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 50.8 in May from 50.4 in April, the third straight month of improvement and a five-month high.

And, on Tuesday, British banking giant HSBC released a private PMI survey that showed it came in at 49.4, the highest reading

since January’s 49.5.Both indexes are closely watched indica-

tors of the health of the economy. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.

China’s leaders say they want to transform the country’s growth model to one whereby consumer spending and other forms of pri-vate demand become the key driver for the economy, rather than over-reliance on huge and often wasteful investment projects that

have girded decades of expansion.Such a makeover is expected to result in

slower but more sustainable growth in the long run. China in March set its annual growth target for this year at about 7.5 percent, the same as last year.

The World Bank on Friday said it expects China’s economic growth to moderate over the next few years, with GDP expansion to slow to 7.6 percent this year.

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Markets have largely taken May’s military takeover in their stride, but there is still nervous-ness about a regime that has put the air force chief in charge of the economy and appointed the navy commander to oversee tourism.

Experts say the last putsch, in 2006, showed that soldiers lack the expertise to run Southeast Asia’s

second-largest economy.“The military government strug-

gled to manage the economy, reflecting the lack of technocratic skills in economic management and administration,” recalled Rajiv Biswas, chief Asia economist at the IHS consultancy firm.

The regime was also unable to move ahead with significant reforms because of its caretaker

status, he added.After the 2006 coup, markets

were particularly frightened by drastic foreign capital controls introduced several months later to try to curb the rise of the baht, noted Ryan Aherin, Asia analyst at risk advisory company Maple-croft.

“The measure was very unpopu-lar with investors, he said.

The Thai stock market suffered a plunge of 15 percent in just one day before authorities quickly backtracked.

The regime also briefly consid-ered limiting foreign investment in

businesses.By the time it abandoned the

idea, “investor sentiment had al-ready plummeted due to fears of na-tionalistic policies”, said Aherin.

So far, the Thai stock market is up about four percent since the May 22 coup, helped by buoyant global investment sentiment.

But Japan, Thailand’s largest foreign investor, is watching events with trepidation.

Japanese auto giants Toyota, Honda and Nissan have invested heavily in Thailand, attracted by its skilled workforce and the ease of doing business.

Even before the coup, Thai-land’s economy was reeling from nearly seven months of deadly street protests, which dented consumer confidence and scared off foreign tourists.

The economy shrank 2.1 percent quarter-on-quarter in the first three months of 2014, according to an official estimate. The fear is that it will contract again in the second quarter, sliding into recession.

“The economy is like a dy-ing person -- it’s sick so it needs oxygen,” said Tanit Sorat, vice chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI).

AP Photo/Andy WongSalesclerks are reflected on a mirror as they wait for customers at their store selling fashion accessories at a shopping mall in Beijing, China Monday, May 12, 2014. China’s trade surplus surged in May, official data showed Sunday, as export growth acceler-ated sharply while imports showed a surprise fall.

Thai coup raises fears for ‘sick’ economyAgence France-Presse

BANGKOK - The last time Thailand had a coup, the stock market crashed when the kingdom imposed draconian capital controls. This time around, investors hope the generals have learned their lesson.

China’s May trade surplus up to $35.92 billion

Bali Post

BANGLI - The existence of wa-ter hyacinth plants starting to fill the area of Lake Batur, in fact, brings in its own problems for local tour-ism operators. Its ever-expanding impact has made the regular tour-ist boat crossing from Songan to Trunyan difficult to anchor at the mouth of the lake. Such conditions forced travelers heading to Songan should be dropped at somewhat shallow location and then walked on the concrete building debris in the vicinity.

According to a local tour guide, Gede Mangku Mustika, Friday (Jun 6), the presence of water hyacinth growing widespread around the lake often reaped tourist com-plaints. In addition, travelers also often questioned why the water hyacinth growing in Lake Batur seemed to have been neglected and not cleaned up properly. “This condition is complained seriously by tourists because they are forced

to drop at somewhat shallow loca-tion,” he said.

He said that before the lake overflowed and filled with water hyacinth as the current condition, tour guides would usually escort their guests directly to the mouth of the lake. Meanwhile, today they dropped their guests by force in shallow location. Moreover, they were forced to walk on the concrete building debris on the edge of the lake which was certainly quite hazardous for them.

Mustika expected that such conditions could be dealt with to-gether. In addition to the public, the government in this case the relevant agencies should immediately inter-vene to clean up the water hyacinth plants very disturbing the travelers making a visit. Other than cleaning the lake region, the eradication of water hyacinth in the vicinity was also important to prevent the ac-celeration of siltation which had become the main problem in Lake Batur. (ina)

The Head of Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, said on Saturday (Jun 7) that as of April of this year, the tourist arrival reached 10,681 people. At the moment, it was the largest con-tributor of the total tourist arrival to Klungkung reach-ing 17,854 people. Sujana said that since March the tourist arrival was starting to enter a crowded period where many travelers were visiting Bali and taking the time to have a closer look at historical heritage.

Peak season of tourist visit to Kertha Gosa was estimated to occur in August. “Peak season usually happens from July to August,” said Sujana. Through-out the year 2013, a total of 54, 745 people visited Kertha Gosa. It was the third largest after the tourism area of Nusa Penida reaching 185,909 people and Goa Lawah Temple reaching 55,308 people, of the total tourist arrival of 298,979 people. The position decreased from 2012, where Kertha Gosa became the second largest contributor after tourism area of Nusa Penida reaching up to 60,262 people.

Apparently it would be difficult to pursue such number of tourist visit this year considering up to the first semester, the number of tourist visit had not reached 50 percent from the previous year. His party claimed the arrival to tourist attractions in Klung-kung was unpredictable. However, various kinds of promotional efforts had been made. Likewise, his party was going to renovate the Kertha Gosa with a budget of IDR 1 billion scheduled to be carried out this year. County government would soon restore the two main buildings at the tourist attraction because they had long suffered severe damage and threatened the values of classical Kamasan painting on the ceiling of the building.

His party hoped to always preserve the heritage of Klungkung kingdom. Historical values of the build-ings had become a magnet that could draw thousands of travelers to come every year. (kmb31)

IBP/File PhotoThe existence of water hyacinth plants starting to fill the area of Lake Batur, in fact, brings in its own problems for local tourism operators.

In Lake Batur Water hyacinth makes tourist boat hard to moor

On holiday

Hundreds of travelers throng Kertha GosaBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Ahead of holiday season, hundreds of foreign and domestic travelers throng the Kertha Gosa tourist attraction, Klungkung. Dozens of big buses arrive each day to have a closer look at the Klungkung kingdom’s heritage. This place retains tourist attraction, although both buildings are in damaged condition.

IBP/BagiartaAhead of holiday season, hundreds of foreign and domestic travelers throng the Kertha Gosa tourist attraction, Klungkung.

BUSINESS

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Lt. Fazel Rahman, the police chief in the Guzirga i-Nur district of Baghlan province, said the death toll from Friday’s flash flooding had climbed to 81 from 54. Some 850 houses across several villages were completely destroyed and more than 1,000 were damaged by the heavy rain and flooding, leaving thousands of people in need of shelter, food, water and medicine, Rahman said.

Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said Army helicopters were assisting in relief efforts in the remote district, which is just 140 kilometers (85 miles) north of the provincial capital Puli Khumri, but is an eight to nine hour journey by land because of the rugged terrain. Rahman said local authorities had received around 100 tents, several hundred blankets and some food, but that more supplies were needed.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a high-ranking gov-ernment commission to acceler-

ate emergency aid to the affected villages and expressed his “deep condolences” to those who lost loved ones, the palace said in a statement Sunday. Afghans living in the northern mountains have largely been spared from the country’s de-cades of war, but are no strangers to natural disasters.

Last month, a landslide triggered by heavy rain buried large sections of a remote village in the northeast-ern Badakhshan province bordering China, displacing some 700 fami-lies. Authorities have yet to provide an exact figure on the number of dead from the May 2 landslide, and estimates have ranged from 250 to 2,700. Officials said it was impos-sible to dig up all the bodies.

A landslide in Baghlan province in 2012 killed 71 people. After days of digging unearthed only five bodies, authorities gave up on the recovery effort and turned the area into a memorial.


SEATTLE — Thousands of dollars are being donated to honor the student credited with thwarting a gunman from shooting more people at a small Seattle university. Jon Meis and other students stopped the gunman Thursday at Seattle Pacific University. Meis has been credited with pepper-spraying and pinning the gunman while he was reloading his shotgun in the lobby of the building where the shooting happened.

Soon after Meis was identified, praise began to pour out on social media sites. Someone found Meis’ wedding registry, and people quickly bought out nearly all the gifts on the wish list. That’s when ESPN sports radio producer Jessamyn McIntyre got the idea to begin a GoFundMe site for Meis and his fiancé’s honeymoon and future. The site quickly went viral.

According to the page’s statistics, over $26,000 from more than 830 donations has been raised as of Saturday afternoon — tallies that are expected to increase. McIntyre said she hasn’t had direct contact with the Meis family, who have asked for privacy. But she has left them her contact information. She also contacted university officials. She will leave the fundrais-ing page up for a week, unless the family asks her to take it down.

On the donations page, people continue praising Meis. One person posted, “Only one word needed: Inspiring,” to go with a $20 donation. A 26-year-old suspect was charged after the shooting that left a 19-year-old man dead and two other young people wounded. The quick action by Meis likely saved lives, police said.

Another solemn fundraiser has also been launched to cover the funeral costs of Paul Lee, the 19-year-old student from Portland, Oregon, killed in the shooting.

Seattle Pacific University alumnus Michael Hasegawa-Yun started the page on GiveForward.com and quickly surpassed the original $5,000 goal. The site had raised more than $6,000 by Saturday afternoon. He says he’ll expand the fundraising to also financially help the student who remains in the hospital.

Death toll from Afghan flood climbs to 81Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan — More than 80 bodies have been found two days after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan’s mountainous and remote north, a provincial official said Sunday, as police and villagers scoured the rugged terrain for missing people and Army helicopters flew in supplies to thousands left homeless.

Afghan police and villagers carry bodies of people after flooding in the northeastern Baghlan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 7, 2014. Flooding in a remote part of northern Af-ghanistan has claimed more than 50 lives and forced thousands to flee their homes, a provincial official said Saturday.AP Photo/Javid Basharat

Donations pour in for Seattle campus-shooting hero

AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua TrujilloJon Meis is taken from the scene by medics after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday, June 5, 2014 in Seattle.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Although the Denpasar Police Criminal Investi-gation Unit could arrest the gang of motorcycle theft, it remains unable cover up the rampant motorcycle theft in the other eight counties. From January to March 2014, a total of 94 cases were reported, where 20 cases of them could have been resolved.

Pursuant to the data on crimes of Bali Police, until March 2014 the motorcycle theft case was rife in each county police, where the most rampant was in the jurisdiction of Denpasar Police (53 cases) and 10 cases of them had been resolved. The second place was occupied by the jurisdiction of Badung Police with 14 cases and one of them could be resolved. Meanwhile, Buleleng Police was in the third place with 11 reported cases and three cases could be resolved.

Meanwhile, the motorcycle theft action reported in the jurisdiction of Tabanan Police came to 6 cases and one case could be resolved, Gianyar Police (6 cases) and three cases could be resolved, Klungkung Police (2 case) and one case could be resolved. Ultimately, no motor-cycle theft case was reported in the jurisdiction of Karangasem Police and Bangli Police.

Keep in mind, the motorcycle theft action in the jurisdiction of Bali Police showed a significant improvement in 2012 and 2013. In 2012, a total of 350 cases occurred, where 92 cases could be resolved. In 2013, the case increased signifi-cantly by 55 percent from 2012, to 541 cases, but only 121 cases could be resolved. Total case happened during 2012 and 2013 amounted to 891 cases, where 213 cases could be resolved.

Spokesperson of Bali Police, Hery Wiyanto, when asked for his confirmation on the rampant mo-torcycle theft said that police had tried to optimally minimize it. In addition, police had also conducted special operation to suppress the oc-currence of motorcycle theft action. “Police have taken firm action to the perpetrators of theft,” he said while advising people to further increase their awareness and every time parking motorcycle should not be careless. He also encouraged people to use double lock. (kmb35)

Chief of Prison Security Guard, Wayan Agus Miarda, said the arrest began when both perpetrators wished to commend food to one of the inmates, precisely on Saturday afternoon around 4:55 p.m. “Juwarso commends food before the end of visiting time,” he said.

However, when the officers checked it, on the upper part of the large red plastic bag contained fresh vegetables, tomatoes and car-rots. However, when searched further, at the bottom was found a thick bundle tightened with brown tape. “Having been checked, the officer found dried marijuana and a bottle of liquor,” he said while adding if the officers see-ing the marijuana in the packing immediately arrested Juwarso.

When interrogated, said Agus Miarda, Juwar-

so admitted if it was the packing commended by his friend named Besit, equally from Jember, East Java. He initially admitted not to know if the packing delivered to prison contained dried marijuana. However, he also admitted that for sending marijuana to prison, Juwarso gave him money worth IDR 350,000 and IDR 150,000 to buy vegetables. Based on confession of Ju-warso, Besit was from Jember, East Java, and an ex-convict at Kerobokan Prison. “According to Juwarso, his friend Besit commended the goods for an inmate in the prison. Besit said it was only sugar,” he added.

After receiving a report, personnel of the Badung Police Drug Unit immediately came to Kerobokan Prison. Unexpectedly, police checking the mobile phone owned by Juwarso

found a short text message containing the sen-tence “The marijuana amounts to 3 kg, right?” The message strongly proved if the perpetrator intentionally smuggled 3 kg of marijuana into Kerobokan Prison. Furthermore, both perpetra-tors were brought to Badung Police Headquar-ters to undergo further examination.

Meanwhile, Chief of Kerobokan Prison, Farid Junaedi, appreciated his staff that re-mained vigilant against drug smuggling. In addition, he hoped the drug trafficking in the prison could be eliminated. “I very much ap-preciate my officers who remain vigilant to check every incoming goods. Furthermore, I instruct the officers to be more alert, so the drug trafficking inside can totally be elimi-nated,” he said.

When asked about the purpose of the mari-juana consignment weighing 3 kg, the 1993 alumnus of the Academy of Correctional Sci-ences said that his party would coordinate with the Badung Police Drug Unit to investigate the case, “We’ll also investigate the inmate ordering the marijuana together with police,” he said. (kmb35)

Motorcycle theft case rampant, residents urged to be vigilant

3 kg of marijuana fails to be smuggled into Kerobokan Prison

IBP/FileKerobokan Prison

Bali Post

DENPASAR - High demand for drugs in the Kerobokan Prison of Class II A is proved by the smuggling about to be conducted by two men from East Java named Ahmad Im-ron Rosidi, 34, and Juwarso, 26, Saturday (Jun 7). Unmitigatedly, the dried marijuana weighing 3 kg was about to be smuggled into the prison, where the perpetrators are now secured in the Badung Police Headquarters.

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The Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Director General of Public Informa-tion and Diplomacy Esti Andayani said as the host of the forum, Indone-sia had the privilege of inviting state leaders to attend the event.

“President Yudhoyono sent invi-tations to eleven state leaders, who he considered represent each region on diversity issues,” Esti noted.

The eleven state leaders who were invited include Spain, Turkey, Brazil, Qatar, Austria, Myanmar, China, India, Timor Leste, Papua

AntaraDENPASAR - A number of Balinese academicians have declared

their support for presidential candidate Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and his running mate Jusuf Kalla (JK), a spokesman said.

“Academicians representing all universities in Bali gathered here on Saturday evening to declare their support for Jokowi-JK,” Dr Made Bakta, coordinator of the Balinese Academician Exponents, said on Sunday.

The declaration was aimed at promoting the vision and missions of Jokowi-JK among the public, and university students in particular, he said.

“A coordinating secretariat will be set up in every university to introduce the vision and missions, according to him.

“Jokowi-JK has a vision and missions to bring a change in Indone-sia in the future. Because this nation needs a basic change, including a change in the public’s mentality,” he added.

He said the Balinese academicians were committed to supporting the Jokowi-JK pair.

Jokowi had good track record when he was the mayor of Solo and the governor of Jakarta as he was successful and making significant change, he stated.

Jusuf Kalla, when he was the country’s vice president, managed to end armed conflicts and bring peace to Aceh and Maluku provices, he added.

Wayan Sudirta, coordinator of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Coalition for Jokowi-JK in Bali, said many public elements supported Jokowi-JK.

“We are optimistic that the Jokowi-JK pair will win in the up-coming presidential election. In Bali, almost every public element supports the modest, honest and down-to-earth presidential and vice presidential candidates,” he said.

Indonesia is going to hold a free and democratic presidential elec-tion on July 9, 2014, which will be participated in only two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates: Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Jusuf Kalla.

Prabowo Subianto is a retired military general and the chairman of Gerindra (Great Indonesia Movement) Party, while his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, is a former coordinating minister for economic affairs and the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN).

Jokowi is Jakarta’s Governor and a cadre of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), and his running mate, Jusuf Kalla (JK), is a former vice president and a senior politician of the Golkar Party.

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

A Balinese elderly dancer performs during art and cultural performance event in Bali, Indonesia, Sunday, June 8, 2014. Dozens of elderly people took part in the event.

President to open UNAOC Global Forum in Bali

IBP

DENPASAR - Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will officially open the Sixth United Nations Alliances of Civilizations (UNAOC) in Bali on August 29, addressing the theme of “unity in diversity: celebrating diversity for common and shared value.”

New Guinea and South Africa.“Myanmar is invited in its capac-

ity as the chairman of ASEAN, even though it is not as yet a member of UNAOC’s Group of Friends (GoF),” Esti said.

In addition to the eleven state leaders, the Sixth UNAOC’s Global Forum will also be attended by 114 members of UNAOC’s Group of Friends (GoF), 25 international or-ganizations and 100 of UNAOC’s youth delegations.

“It is an honor for Indonesia to

host such an important conference for the civilizations, whereby the world also recognizes our efforts to promote harmony in our society through inter-religion and inter-media discussions,” she said.

As the host of the Sixth UNAOC’s Global Forum, Esti added that Indo-nesia is also keen to strengthen the understanding of pluralism, as the country has owned the concept of “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” or “unity in diversity” for a long time and then used it as the national motto.

“We aim to promote and forge a plan of action on how to accept and respect diversity as a blessing, instead of as a source of disunity,” she said.

Indonesia was expecting a plan of action for promoting harmony in civilizations as the outcome of the event.

“Looking back at the previous events in Vienna, Austria, in 2012, Europe has pledged a plan of action to bridge the gap among various religions, cultures and other civiliza-tions in order to promote harmony, and so we hope that Asia too will have the same,” Esti stated.

Moreover, Esti noted that the Sixth Global Forum of UNAOC in Bali will be the first time that the conference will be held in the Asian region.

“It is an honor for Indonesia to host such an important confer-ence for the civilizations where the world also recognizes our efforts to promote harmonization among our society through inter-religion and inter-media dialogues,” she emphasized.

The UNAOC was initiated by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on July 14, 2005, and co-sponsored by former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zap-atero and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The first UNAOC’s Global Fo-rum in Madrid, Spain, in 2008, was held for a common consideration in condemning extremist actions, such as bomb attacks in Bali, Madrid, Egypt, Istanbul and London.

Balinese academicians support Jokowi-JK


LONDON — There’s a dead rat at the heart of a new exhibition mounted by august auction house Sotheby’s. Stuffed and sporting a backpack and a spray can, the rodent is the creation-cum-alter ego of Banksy, the anonymous street artist turned art-world superstar.

It’s a sign of his status that Sotheby’s is behind one of the largest-ever Banksy exhibitions, a display of kissing police-men, placard-wearing chimpanzees and smiley-faced riot police spanning much of the artist’s career. Some of the works originally sold for as little as 50 pounds ($84). Now, prices range from 4,000 pounds ($6,700) to more than 500,000 pounds ($840,000).

Banksy is not involved in the show, which is being billed as an “unauthorized retrospective.” It has been assembled by his former agent Steve Lazarides, who first met Banksy in the 1990s in their home town of Bristol in southwest

England.Lazarides took a paint-filled fire ex-

tinguisher to the gallery’s white walls to make it look less like an alien environment for graffiti art. But, he conceded Friday, “it’s completely paradoxical for me to be here, for the work to be here.” “It’s in a space it almost shouldn’t be and viewed in a way it was never intended,” he said. “But I think that’s part of the fun.”

The 70 paintings, prints and sculptures, owned by Lazarides and other collectors, display Banksy’s subversive — if not al-ways subtle — humor. Winston Churchill sports a Mohawk haircut; genteel pension-ers play lawn bowls with fizzing bombs; a ballerina breathes through a gas mask; a hungry child with an empty bowl wears a Burger King hat.

Several early works feature police of-ficers — bane of Banksy’s existence as a young street artist. For others, he’s altered existing paintings: Van Gogh’s sunflowers have withered and died; flying saucers disrupt a maritime scene.

AP Photo/Todd Vansickle, FileFILE - In this May 17, 2013 file photo, a flamingo walks along the beach on Necker Island in the British Virgin Is-lands.

This week, a group of local communal landholders blockaded the Holbox town hall to protest the development plans. Three hotels and an estimated 872 residential units would be built on a spit of land now populated only by mangrove trees and flamingos, which wade ankle-deep in gulf waters as calm as glass. The waters aren’t deep enough for the construction barges to build the project, nor the passenger boats the resort would need.

“The fact that the lagoon is so shallow is precisely why the birds come,” said Alejandra Ser-rano, of the Mexican Center for Environmental Law. “They need an area where they can stand up and feed.”

The developers, a group of Mexi-can investors called Peninsula Maya Developments, say they want to keep their impact minimal, build-ing their project on just under 10 hectares (24 acres) of undeveloped

Resort plans draw fire in Mexico flamingo reserveAssociated Press Writer

MEXICO CITY — Flamingos gather by the thousands each year in the pristine, shallow waters of Mexico’s Holbox Island, a sliver of nearly empty beachfront and lush landscape where eco-tourists also go to watch manatees and whale sharks in a locale unlike the nearby hotspot of Cancun. But local residents are disturbed by a development plan to dredge their shallow lagoon for a boat channel that would support a new resort on Isla Holbox (HOL’-bosh). Environmentalists say the deeper canal would threaten the flamingos and other wildlife that are a draw for nature-seekers.

land. The resort, tentatively called “La Ensenada,” would promote “preservation through sustainable tourism based on nature.” The de-velopment group, whose website says its members are citizens of the Yucatan and Mexico City, did not respond to requests for comment.

Project opponents say the area already is preserved and that the small-scale tourism economy built by locals hits the right balance between industry and nature. Resi-dents of Holbox, the village on the western edge of the island, prohibit most motorized vehicles and leave much of the surrounding land un-touched. Tour operators at the small hotels use golf carts and boats to carry around visitors wishing to see the flamingos, swim in cenotes or dive with whale sharks. Fishermen catch enough seafood to supply the island’s small hotels and tourist kitchens without overfishing.

Daniel Trigo, the 32-year-old

owner of the Casa Blat-Ha bed and breakfast, said the planned resort “would have negative impacts on the island’s ecosystem and its society.”

As it is, only a few shallow-draft tour boats ply the lagoon between the island and the mainland each day. Some worry that more boat traffic with larger vessels could hurt the

slow-moving manatees. Developers maintain there are no manatees in the area, but activists say they frequently are seen there. Environmentalists also say Mexican law protects man-grove trees that would need to be cut down for the project.

Holbox Island was declared a nature reserve 20 years ago. But for reasons that are unclear, authorities

have yet to create an official manage-ment plan to control activities in the area. Officials of the Environment Department could not explain why the management plan is unfinished. “That’s why they (developers) feel they can come to Holbox and do anything they want, because they don’t feel they’re in a reserve,” said Serrano.

Sotheby’s goes street with Banksy exhibition

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Sotheby’s employees organise the positioning of art work by British artist Banksy during a press preview of an unauthorized retrospective exhibition showing some 70 works of art in London, Friday, June, 6, 2014.

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony


Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014

1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida

8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan

10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud

11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar

12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi

5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan KlungkungPura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Penebel TabananPura Benua Tarukan Besakih

9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Kalah BatubulanPura Desa Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kuta BadungPura Dalem Pulasari GianyarPura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar SelatanPura Paibon Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak SiringPura Pasar Agung Kediri TabananPura Puaya Batuan Sukawati

11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

19 Deluxe Pool Villas (265m) exude an idyl-lic appeal in the tranquil surroundings. Soft fur-nishings in a simple yet tasteful style create an atmosphere of warmth and cosines. The private plunge pool and gazebo for in-villa massage treatments are added luxuries for guests’ daily indulgence.

The 5 Royal Pool Villa are fashioned like the Deluxe Pool Villas and the 480m compound houses two villas instead of one. A common patio area encourages relaxing evening chats and in-villa dining.

All villas are well equipped with modern conveniences, ideal for discerning executive types and vacationing couples to lounge around and unwind in maximum comfort, inviting you into a memorable holiday experience. IBP/File Photo

Furama Vilas & SpaIBP

BADUNG - The Furama vilas & Spa, Bali is nestled amidst padi fields in the Banjar Bindu district in mountainous Ubud, cover-ing over 2000m2 verdant lands. Accessible to the popular Ubud market via the resort’s free shuttle service, the Concierge can also arrange for transportation to other tourist attractions based on guest’s needs.

According to Prof. Dr. Ketut Suastika, cigarette had the same nature as drugs. Our brain had a receptor for nicotine, a sub-stance contained in cigarette, where the receptor would be stimulated when nicotine en-tered the body. Thus, it made the body addictive. It would be very difficult to quit smoking because the brain as the control center of

the body was in need of nicotine as the contagious nature of the previously stimulated recep-tor. “If there is no very strong intention, people who smoke cannot escape the habit,” said Suastika.

In addition to nicotine, the contents of cigarette smoke were the same as pollutant smoke where one of them was

carbon monoxide gas. Indeed, in the first few years, smokers would not have health problems, other than having congenital diseases such as asthma. “When continuing to smoke, the con-genital asthma usually reacts immediately. But basically the disease emerges due to cigarette is chronic,” said Suastika.

The first organ exposed

Bali PostSINGARAJA - Bengkala village, Kubu-

tambahan subdistrict, known to have dis-abled residents begins to get the attention from foreign community. As evidence, a total of 12 people with similar disability from Canada made a special visit to Bengkala village. The foreigners with disability will stay at the village.

Other than becoming a pride of Buleleng, the visit also poses an exchange activity for teenagers with special needs first held in Indonesia and Northern Bali is appointed to host the activity.

The Division Head of National Potential Development, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Rosita, said on Saturday (Jun 7) that Indo-nesian government through the Minister of Youth and Sports had made cooperation with foreign parties through student exchange since 1974. The exchange of youth with special needs had never been done, and this year was the first time by targeting Buleleng. A total of 12 Canadian citizens would live together in a house of disable Bengkala villagers. “We designed a disabled family of Bengkala will get two foster children of Canadian citizens,” she said.

According to Rosita, during the visit at Bengkala all the participants would conduct social activities, either in the field of health, environment of education. Disable children

and families at Bengkala village would also be taught by the children from Canada about how to use sign language for them in accor-dance with international standards.

Chief of Project Officer of the Indonesia-Canada Relations, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Andi, said the selection of location at Bengkala village for the disability youth exchange was considering the Bengkala village was one of the areas having disable people in large number.

In addition, the existence of people with special needs at Bengkala village, after compared to the other regions in Indonesia, was the most famous. “The exchange of the youth with special needs refers to the capac-ity building for the youth with special needs in order to be able to grow better,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Buleleng Social Services, Gede Komang, very much ap-preciated the exchange program of youth with special needs. According to him, the program was a government effort to give the same opportunity to develop normal residents and those with special needs. Until this year, the residents with special needs in Buleleng reached 5,046 people. A total of 43 people were residents of Bengkala village. “Hopefully, this program can be sustained so as to bring in positive impact on mute residents existing in our area,” he said. (kmb38)

Passive and active smokers equally dangerousBali Post

DENPASAr - Smokers must be very familiar with the warning contained on cigarette case. All types of cigarettes include the same warning that smoking can cause cancer, impotence, heart attack, pregnancy and fetal disorders. The warnings are not a mere figment because both active and passive smokers have large potential to be exposed to disease threats as mentioned in the warning.

was surely the lungs ranging from asthma, bronchitis to lung cancer. Smoking could also trigger coro-nary heart disease, stroke and blood vessels. In addition, it could cause miscarriages and birth defects. Fur-ther, Suastika said the more young people smoked the threat of disease he mentioned was also getting big-ger. Likewise, the morbidity rate would also turn higher. “The disease caused by smoking is chronic. So, the younger one smokes, the poten-tial to be exposed to disease is also getting higher,” he said.

More hazardously, that negative im-pact would not only be exposed to ac-tive smokers. Non-smokers could also be affected if they were continuously

exposed to cigarette smokes or the so-called passive smokers. So, active smokers did not only harm themselves but also damaged the environment and people at the surroundings.

Nevertheless, the smoking caution chiefly for minors, according to Suas-tika, seemed still weak in Indonesia. The government seemed loose in the enforcement of penalties for smokers, though many smoke-free areas had been determined. It remained to exist where many students and minor were smoking. He hoped the government to tighten penalties for smokers who smoked in public places and tighten the rules on the age allowed to buy cigarettes, so teenagers were not easy to get access to buy cigarettes. (san)

Bengkala village to host exchange of the youth with special needs

IBP/File

The Bengkala Village is visited by people from Canada

Most people still believe that Simpson, the black football legend, killed his white ex-wife and her friend, polls show. But for many African-Americans, his likely guilt remains overwhelmed by a potent mix: the racism of

the lead detective and the history of black mistreatment by the justice system.

For these people, Simpson’s acquittal is a powerful rebuke to what they see as America’s racial crimes. Others simply see

a murderer who played the race card to get away with it. Across the board, emotions remain vivid. “We were consumed with it,” recalls Carlos Carter, who at the time was one of the few black people working in the trust department of a Pittsburgh bank. “It represented something bigger than the case, the battle between good and evil, the battle between the white man and the black man. It was at that level.”

It was at a different level for Shannon Spicker, a white woman working her way through college in Ohio at the time. “Most of us didn’t understand why it was racially charged,” she says. “We didn’t understand how people could defend him ... We knew he was guilty, but they defended him because he was black. It was weird.”

On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found knifed to death outside her Los Angeles condo. Suspicion quick-ly focused on Simpson, who had beaten Nicole in the past and had no alibi. Several factors heightened and complicated the drama:

Simpson had a mixed-race marriage in a nation that had historically punished black men who dared to explore interracial sex. He was the target of a Los Angeles Police Department that had a reputation for racism and corruption.

But Simpson also was a wealthy Hollywood actor and ad pitchman with little connec-tion to the black community, a

man who divorced his black wife for a young blonde and traveled in Los Angeles’ most privileged white circles. His money and fame placed him far from the poor, black men lan-guishing in the criminal justice system. “O.J. was in a weird place,” says Ronnie Duncan, a black man who was then working as a TV sportscaster. “He lived a lavish life in L.A., sunny skies, beautiful women, everyone takes you out to lunch. But one thing we recognize, you can deny it all you want, but I can be driving right now and —” Duncan makes the sound of a police siren.

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CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode Island — Actor Alec Baldwin has received the key to Rhode Island’s smallest city for his donations to help reopen the financially struggling city’s library.

Baldwin donated $10,000 to the Adams Memorial Library in Central Falls in 2011 after he read a New York Times story about how it was forced to close because of financial problems. He gave another $5,000 in 2012. The 1-square-mile (2.6-square-kilometer) city emerged from bankruptcy that year.

Baldwin’s visit Saturday was his

first to the library.Library director Joel Pettit says

Baldwin accepted the key from the mayor on the library steps. He was headlining a fundraiser Saturday night in nearby Providence for the library. Pettit said Baldwin is a great guy, and he’s hopeful the event will bring atten-tion to the importance of libraries.

FILE - This April 10, 2014 file photo shows actor Alec Baldwin

at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Fes-tival’s Opening Night Gala in Los

Angeles.

Alec Baldwin accepts key to US city for donation

Photo by Annie I. Bang /Invision/AP, File

Simpson case at 20: Views in black and whiteAssociated Press Writer

The O.J. Simpson murder trial exposed many painful truths. None hit harder than the idea that white and black people often look at the same facts and see different realities. Today, 20 years after the case divided the United States, few opinions have changed. Despite two decades of increasing racial acceptance, highlighted by the election of the country’s first black president, the saga still reflects deep-rooted obstacles to a truly united America.

AP Photo/Keith Srakocic

In this June 2, 2014, photo, Shannon Spicker sits on her porch beside her daughter Maryana, 2, in Coraopolis, Pa., and talks about the feelings she had at the time of the O.J. Simpson arrest, trial and decision 20 years ago. Spicker said, “Most of us didn’t understand why it was racially charged.”

“If the investors take control over the buffer zones, land con-version will certainly happen. Once the land is occupied, they will utilize it as they like. I am pessimistic the investors will be concerned with the function of buffer zone,” said an academician, I Putu Sarjana.

On that account, Sarjana hoped the officials in the county / munici-pality throughout Bali should have commitment to maintain the area

as a source of Balinese life because water resources, agriculture, planta-tions, etc., were predominantly de-rived from the region. If there was a change in the ecosystem due to investors, then Bali would increas-ingly depend on commodities from outside. Meanwhile, people in the region would become modern farm-ers that liked hanging out in coffee shops or cafés until the money of their land sale ran out.

“Do not let any officials even

become the land broker. If that happens, the intention of investors will be fulfilled. This is what I fear,” he said.

In addition, local governments should involve local customary vil-lage in order they could keep and preserve the buffer zone. Besides, the government should provide training and debriefing for pekaseh or subak chief so they knew about wetland, dry land and the phenom-enon at issue. In addition, it was also intended in order they would not duped by investors.

“In relation to the preservation, the role of universities in charge of the matter should be given space to communicate with the public so that it results in maximum training effort,” he affirmed.

If the region had been owned by investors, it would be developed in appropriate with the design planed by investors. On that account, Sarjana hoped the government to seriously address such conditions so that investors would not change the zonation in accordance with their intention. “Ecosystem of the region will obviously change and investors are not thinking about it. They have the authority to have the land. Once again I’d like to re-affirm, the county/municipal government must still recommend the green open space and the agri-culture cannot be used outside its function. The government must take firm action if there is a viola-tion,” said Sarjana.

An environmentalist, Ketut

Adnyana, revealed that investors actually very much supported the sustainable development in Bali. However, the investors should be able to respect and carry out the cultural values upheld by Balinese people, including upholding the values of Balinese culture as well as the matter of house or hotel development.

He hoped that local government should oversee all the projects in the region. If the projects were not equipped with permit, local authori-ties should move quickly and stop the projects. “If they are stubborn, please take action and report them to police. The environmental impact must be taken into account and it is the role of regional government to oversee,” said Adnyana. (kmb36)

Buffer zone should maintain seriouslyBali Post

DENPASAR - To preserve the buffer zone of Bali, such as Petang, Bedugul, Batukaru and Kintamani, local governments are expected to seriously guard and synergize with local people. If this is not undertaken, the investors are feared to make efforts to dominate the region.

IBP/File Photo

The photo showed a view of Panelokan, Kintamani that located at Bangli Regency. To preserve the buffer zone of Bali, such as Petang, Bedugul, Batukaru and Kintamani, local governments are expected to seriously guard and synergize with local people.

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